Responsibilities

Effectively lead data path areas of the XC product line

Understand the distributed systems deeply and design scalable solutions

Technically lead the implementation of major system components

Document software designs via functional specifications and other design documents

Proactively identifying and resolving key technical issues

Work on performance improvements across the platform

Investigate and propose solutions for the security vulnerabilities of Distributed Cloud platform and third-party packages used by the platform

Serve as a source of technical expertise to the product team and be a mentor for junior staff members

Keep abreast of new technologies, potential business partners

Efficiently communicate/collaborate internally at F5

Conduct presentations both internally and externally - this includes technical and non-technical colleagues and customers

Recommend and maintain technical design methodologies, processes and standards

Qualifications

Minimum of fifteen years of significant software development and engineering experience.

Ten or more years designing, implementing and evangelizing large scale distributed systems

Prior experience with cloud technology and networking, load balancers, routing platforms, control plane, SDN, Docker, Kubernetes, public cloud (Azure, AWS) etc.

Experience with any commercial load balancer

Architectural skills and ability to deep dive into technical challenges

Aptitude for solving complex problems and attitude of transcending new/classic technology preferences in favour of finding right solutions for our customers

Specialist in various software architectures such as distributed systems and microservices

Strong engineering and design skills, with solid understanding of real-time high performance, scalable and distributed systems

Good communication, presentation skills and ability to work well in a development team

Proven experience driving complex SW development and test efforts in small and fast paced organizations, with an understanding of the trade-offs that must be made to ensure timeliness and quality.

Strong SW engineering and design skills with an eye for detail

Passion for learning new technologies, and a track record of doing so.

Principal Software Development Engineer

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