Principal Software Engineer Full Stack Cloud

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 Software Engineer - Full Stack Cloud

Why this role

Build and operate end-to-end systems that power MyF5 case management knowledge and agent tooling. Youll deliver scalable cloud services modern web experiences CI / CD / IaC and data platforms that measurably improve self-service deflection MTTR and agent productivity while helping the org adopt AI to multiply team impact.

What youll own

Architect and ship full-stack solutions (React / TypeScript frontends; Node / Python / Go / Java backends) and production APIs.

Design cloud architectures on public cloud : managed DBs object storage networking IAM and secure service-to-service patterns.

Build data platforms : relational NoSQL caching search event streams and object storage; enable vector / semantic stores for AI.

Own CI / CD and IaC (Terraform / ARM / Bicep GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps / Jenkins); containerize and run on Kubernetes (AKS / EKS).

Instrument observability and SLAs (metrics tracing logging); ensure operational excellence and security / compliance.

Integrate with enterprise platforms (Salesforce Coveo / search identity providers) and partner with Product Support Ops Security and ML teams.

Mentor engineers and introduce standards templates and automation to scale delivery.

Required qualifications

10 years building full-stack systems at scale.

Strong frontend (React / TypeScript) and backend (Node / Python / Go / Java) experience.

Deep Azure and / or AWS experience : compute networking managed databases (Postgres / Aurora / DynamoDB / Cosmos) S3 / Azure Blob.

Hands-on CI / CD and IaC (Terraform / ARM / Bicep; GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps / Jenkins).

Containerization & orchestration : Docker Kubernetes (AKS / EKS).

Data platform familiarity : caching (Redis) search (Elasticsearch / Coveo) eventing (Kafka / Kinesis) object storage.

Strong observability security and production-ops experience.

Excellent communicator who translates product / customer needs into robust technical solutions.

Leverages AI tools to boost team productivity uses AI-assisted development and automation to create multiplier effects across the org.

Built predictive & generative AI apps in production and can guide product requirements to embed AI features (RAG embeddings / vector stores predictive pipelines) into workflows.

BS / MS in CS or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

Prior experience with customer success / support systems (portal knowledge).

Familiarity with LLM integration patterns and vector DBs (FAISS Milvus).

Experience in regulated environments (FedRAMP / GovCloud).

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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 : $186400.00 - $279600.00

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 F5s 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 F5s benefits can be found at the following link : F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

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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 .

Required Experience :

Staff IC

Key Skills

Continuous Integration,Docker,Jenkins,Python,System Design,Agile,C / C++,Go,Systems Engineering,Software Development,Java,Distributed Systems

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 186400 - 279600