Sr Principal Engineer

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.

At F5 we are looking for a Senior Principal Engineer to work on BIGIP and BIGIP Next products improving network performance on our various supported platforms. At F5 performance is a key area and this role will include designing code for performance and evaluating existing performance daily. This role is crucial in reaching our performance objectives across all platforms. The ideal candidate must display technical ability and leadership, collaboration across various teams and mentoring ability.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Serve as technical lead in performance related design and implementation.
• Collaborate across organizations aligning performance goals with Product Management, Architects and other leaders across the company.
• Mentor junior members of the team.
• Troubleshoot performance issues across hardware and software.
• Define technical documents, white papers and presentations outlining performance strategy across various products and platforms.

Knowledge, Skills, Ability

• Must have deep understanding of low level programming languages including optimizing compilers and memory management, algorithms and data structures.
• Must understand X86 and ARM architectures and corresponding assembly language.
• Understand the interaction between hardware components and software as it relates to performance impacts including memory management, process scheduling and system calls.
• Must understand Linux kernel and Linux-based operating systems.
• Must understand Performance Analysis Tools and profiling tools such as oprofile, perf, gprof, PGO and other benchmarking tools.
• Must have in depth knowledge of networking concepts and networking protocols across all layers of the OSI Model – Understand IPV4/IPV6 and various protocols HTTP, HTTPS and other well-known protocols.

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: $207,279.00 - $310,919.00

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.