Principal Software Engineer, Distributed Cloud

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.If you're passionate about engineering robust solutions for large-scale distributed software infrastructuresespecially those spanning both control and data planesthis position offers end-to-end ownership of mission-critical components that power advanced networking capabilities and future-proof connectivity.

Why This Role is Unique:

Our SaaS is

hybrid

running across

public cloud and a global network of 50+ PoPs

, delivering

terabits of capacity

and many thousands of devices installed in diverse infrastructure.

What You'll Do:

Be the Architect Behind driving key platform enhancements with resiliency and scale

• Drive reliability and resiliency as part of the platform evolution
• Drive re-architecture & scale of various key components of the platform
  

Own Roadmap of the platform

• Drive advancements in high-performance networking capabilities, ensuring the platform remains future-ready for evolving connectivity standards and global traffic demands.
• Scale and optimize essential control and data plane components to support seamless expansion and robust system reliability across diverse environments.
• Lead the development of innovative services that enhance operational efficiency and resource utilization in complex network architectures.
• Continuously reduce toil in the development lifecycle through comprehensive testing, intelligent automation, and strategic platform enhancements focused on resilient connectivity.
  

Collaborate & Mentor

• Work closely with SREs and QA to improve reliability and performance of the product.
• Mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of SDLC thinking.
  

What Makes You a Great Fit

• Extensive experience in IPv6 development and deployment across cloud-native platforms.
• Demonstrated expertise in re-architecting and scaling large-scale distributed systemsparticularly in hybrid SaaS environments that integrate both cloud and global infrastructure.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes, Golang, and L3-L7 networking principles
• Strong commitment to deep observability, network analytics, and edge automation at scale.
  

If you love

creating a highly resilient platform that scales, automating everything, and working in a hybrid cloud + networking environment

, we want to talk to you!The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.