Principal Engineer, Software Development

Experience: Not Available to Not Available years

Location: Hyderabad

Skills: C, C++, Go, Python, Unix, TCP/IP, TCP, UDP, IP, HTTP, SSL, DNS, FTP, cloud-native architectures, microservices, Kubernetes, containerized workloads, networking, security, APIs, data consistency models, CI/CD, observability

What You’ll Do
Lead the design and development of highly available, high-performance software for F5’s BIG-IP Platform. Drive architectural decisions, ensuring scalability, performance, and security across Hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. Mentor and guide senior and mid-level engineers, promoting engineering excellence and best practices. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into robust, maintainable technical solutions. Evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and approaches to improve the platform’s capabilities and developer productivity. Lead deep technical reviews of architecture, design, and code to ensure the highest quality deliverables. Partner with leadership to set technical roadmaps and standards for distributed systems development. Act as a thought leader for distributed cloud services internally and externally, including technical blogs, whitepapers, and conference presentations.

Minimum Qualifications
12+ years of qualified software development experience, including 5+ years building distributed systems at scale. Proven expertise in at least one programming language C or C++ and good understanding (Go, Python) and solid understanding in Unix operating systems concepts and TCP/IP networking stack and protocols like TCP, UDP, IP, HTTP, SSL, DNS, FTP etc. Strong experience with cloud-native architectures, microservices,



Kubernetes, and containerized workloads. Deep understanding of networking, security, APIs, and data consistency models in distributed environments. Demonstrated success in technical leadership roles, influencing cross-team architecture and delivering complex projects. Solid experience with CI/CD pipelines, observability, and operational excellence practices. Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications
Experience with multi-cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid environments. Familiarity with distributed data stores, messaging systems, and event-driven architectures. Contributions to open-source projects related to distributed systems, networking, or cloud computing.

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, advantages, 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 [email protected].

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