Principal Engineer, Software

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. 
 

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Position Summary

This position is responsible for building expertise in designing automation solutions to test high-scale distributed systems. You will make a meaningful impact by collaborating with Architects, SRE and application development teams to vet and validate test automation for our edge computing platform that is used to deploy global, scalable and secure applications

Primary Responsibilities

• Technically lead the Engineeering team and drive feature deliveries

• Going through the PRDs, driving test plan, reviews, feature execution and automation.

• Coverage on Performance and Scaling aspects of the product. 

• Feature ownership and assisting the support team on customer issues.

• Contributing and leading the technical execution across releases.

• Driving regression runs and analysis of delivered features 

• Demonstrate strong mentoring abilities to guide and support team members

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.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Experience in designing automation software from the ground up, choosing the right infrastructure components, evaluating both open source and closed source software.

• Strong working knowledge of testing fundamentals.

• Hands on experience in languages such as Golang, Python, Perl, Shell scripts etc.

• Good understanding of Virtualization technologies like KVM, Docker.

• Good understanding of computer networking (routing/switching) concepts, network security, HTTP Loadbalancers, proxies like Envoy/Nginx etc.

• Working knowledge of Cloud orchestration systems such as Openstack/Kubernetes.

• Experience working on well-known clouds like AWS/Azure/GCP would be a plus.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong interpersonal, team building, and mentoring skills.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s or a Master’s degree

F5 Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.

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.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

Equal Employment 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. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.  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. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com.