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The Principal Software Engineer will lead the architecture and development of anti-bot and fraud products, providing technical expertise and mentorship to teams.
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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.

Principal, SWE

We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our web security team! This role involves working on the core components of our product that stops bots and fraud.

Our client-side technology currently mitigates bots across billions of transactions per day and you would be critical in defining and building out the technical architecture that expands our products to protect against evolving adversaries. Your work will involve building services to deliver and secure our client code, finding new in-browser data sources to detect fraud, and hardening our data collection techniques against adversaries.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Define, expand, and build the architecture of our anti-bot/fraud products

  • Serve as a source of technical expertise to multiple project teams

  • Guide and mentor team members

  • Conduct code reviews and advocate for code quality

    Who you are

  • expert with the web platform (web apps, JavaScript, etc.)

  • solid programming ability (ideally JavaScript/TypeScript and Java)

  • experience leading cross-team projects to completion

  • experience with language tooling (parsing, static analysis, compilers, etc.)

  • experience building web services

  • experience with automation tooling

    Qualifications

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Come work alongside pioneers in cybersecurity and help make a difference in fighting crime on the web!

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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.

The annual base pay for this position is: $199,952.00 - $299,928.00

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. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice. 

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.

Top Skills

Automation Tooling
Java
JavaScript
Typescript
Web Platform
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F5 Seattle, Washington, USA Office

801 5th Ave, Seattle, WA, United States, 98104

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