F5
Principal Engineer
San Jose · Principal
Sponsorship not specified$226k-$338kDetected 1 day ago
AWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesLLMsCybersecurityHRISLoad BalancingLeadershipCollaborationMentoring
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About the role
- As a Principal Engineer at F5, you will play a hands-on technical leadership role in building and scaling F5's AI Security and Delivery Platform.
- You will own end-to-end component design, data plane efficiency, control plane integrations, and advanced AI security and traffic delivery controls across multi-cloud and Kubernetes-native infrastructures.
- AI Protection & Traffic Delivery:
Responsibilities
- System Design & Implementation: Design, code, and deploy resilient, scalable features for enterprise AI control planes and data planes utilizing Go, C, and Rust.
- AI Protection & Traffic Delivery: Implement advanced security controls, semantic policy enforcement, rate limiting, load distribution, and observability mechanisms tailored for high-throughput AI workloads and LLM pipelines.
- Kubernetes & Cloud Infrastructure: Build Kubernetes-native operators, custom resource definitions (CRDs), and high-performance proxy plugins that seamlessly bridge multi-cloud and on-premises environments.
- Technical Mentorship: Mentor senior and staff engineers, conduct architectural reviews, drive code quality standards, and enforce engineering best practices across teams.
- Collaboration: Work closely with product management and platform architects to refine technical specifications and deliver robust platform releases.
- System Design & Implementation:
- Design, code, and deploy resilient, scalable features for enterprise AI control planes and data planes utilizing Go, C, and Rust.
- Implement advanced security controls, semantic policy enforcement, rate limiting, load distribution, and observability mechanisms tailored for high-throughput AI workloads and LLM pipelines.
- Mentor senior and staff engineers, conduct architectural reviews, drive code quality standards, and enforce engineering best practices across teams.
- Work closely with product management and platform architects to refine technical specifications and deliver robust platform releases.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated experience with Kubernetes internals, container orchestration, and multi-cloud networking primitives (AWS, Azure, GCP, Private Cloud).
Skills
- Kubernetes & Cloud Infrastructure:
Compensation
- $225,600.00 - $338,400.00
- F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5's differing products, industries, and lines of business.
- The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.
- You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits.
Benefits
- https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits.
- F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.
- This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.
Company info
- 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.
Equal opportunity
- It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws.
- F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates.
- Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary.
- F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job.
This listing is sourced directly from F5's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.