Sr Principal Engineer
Volterra
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Position Summary:
We are seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to lead the design and development of Control Plane for F5’s cloud native BIGIP products. You would be responsible for crafting and maintaining control-plane architecture that is resilient, scale and performance tested and free from security vulnerability. This Control Plane provides a global, scalable, and secure way to deploy applications to multiple tenants at the same time. The ideal candidate will exhibit exceptional technical leadership, mentoring abilities, and a vision for innovation that aligns with the company's long-term goals.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Serve as the technical lead for BIGIP Kubernetes control plane, guiding design and architecture decisions that align with organizational objectives
- Independently determine and develop approaches to solutions for assigned projects by identifying, resolving and mitigating risk and communicating to others
- Provide guidance and mentorship to engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Liaise with cross-functional teams, including Product Management and Customer Support, to ensure seamless delivery of product features and enhancements.
- Drive research efforts to explore new technologies and methodologies, translating findings into actionable design improvements and product enhancements.
- Act as a mentor for junior members of the team
- Actively communicate technical concepts through discussions, white papers, and presentations
- Perform other related duties as assigned, which may include on-call responsibilities or travel as necessary (approximately 5%)
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Proficiency in Kubernetes, CRDs, Helm, gRPC etc. is required
- Must be expert at GO, C/C++ programming language
- Must have strong background in networking technologies & protocols like IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, HTTP etc
- Experience developing applications in docker/container-based cloud environment
- Working knowledge of application deployment/orchestration using Kubernetes is desired
- Experience writing automated unit/functional tests
- Experience with gitlab/github or other source code management is needed
- Outstanding problem solving, analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Experience with AWS and other cloud technologies is a plus
- Able to own various complex problems, collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced high-performance environment
- Regularly demonstrates collaboration by promoting others’ ideas, working well within and other teams, influencing others, and making teams successful
- Demonstrated leadership role within project team
- Must be passionate and enjoy solving complex problems. This is a fast paced, innovative environment and requires candidate to grasp new technologies quickly
- Demonstrated excellence in written, interpersonal, and verbal communications. Regularly finds ways to communicate widely through discussions, white papers, publications and other. Willingness and ability to write good functional specification and design document
Qualifications:
Typically requires a minimum of 15 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 12 years with a Master's degree; or a PhD with 8 years of experience; or equivalent experience.
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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: $207,279.00 - $310,919.00F5 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.
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