Engage in the development of edge-native applications and platform services using emerging technologies for F5’s innovative SaaS platform
Take ownership of software components, ensuring the delivery of complete products that meet functional, scale, performance, and manageability requirements
Investigate various open-source and closed-source technologies, components, libraries, and tools
Apply understanding and exposure to design patterns and coding practices, especially in microservices architectures and API design, implementation, and management
Experience with cloud-native providers such as MS Azure, AWS, Google Cloud
Independently investigate, present options, review, and implement completely new functionality
Collaborate with other development teams, product management, UX, and QA to define and implement new product offerings

10+ years of related experience with a bachelor's degree; or 3+ years and a master's degree
Knowledge and experience in highly distributed software systems
Expertise with programming languages such as Golang, Python, Java or any high-level proprietary or open-source language
Good understanding of programming fundamentals and their application to highly scalable web-based systems
Hands-on experience working across the networking stack
Must have hands-on experience with SQL or NoSQL technologies
Strong understanding of modern CI/CD methodology and Git-based workflows
Experience in Docker technologies and orchestration systems like Kubernetes
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Strong interpersonal, team-building, and mentoring skills

Principal Software Development Engineer

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