People Matter

Principal Engineer

Volterra

Volterra

Software Engineering
Seattle, WA, USA
USD 186,400-279,400 / year + Equity
Posted on Feb 5, 2026

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.

F5, Inc. seeks Principal Engineer in Seattle, WA:

Job Duties: Design software system architecture. Microservice architecture, distributed system design, Containerization and Orchestration, Database schema design, Security and compliance. Read Product Requirements Document (PRD) and gather functional and non-functional requirements from product managers. Design system architecture and review with team members. Design data management and control, including database schema, choice of DBMS and blob storage, backup and schema migration. Design API scheme and provide pseudocode for each microservice and flow. Design security aspects including authentication, authorization, data encryption and data masking. Design monitoring metrics, alerting, and disaster recovery plans. Implement new features and requirements. Streaming and batch processing, Database schema design, Containerization. Define API specs through protobuf or swagger YAML. Develop connection code to manage connection pools to databases. Develop model and data access object code to define and manage database operations through object relation mapping. Develop service code for well encapsulated internal and external services. Develop controller code to handle main execution flow of software program. Develop streaming data pipeline in Apache beam to handle transforms and ingestion to data warehouse. Develop batch data pipeline orchestrated by Apache Airflow to handle offline data processing and rollup from data warehouse to NoSQL database. Test, documentation and DevOps. Code unit testing, integration testing, confluence, Continuous integration, Continuous deployment, Infrastructure provisioning, Kubernetes administration, develop k8s packages. Develop unit-test test case and coverage test. Develop integration test cases. Develop and implement linter for code quality. Develop scripts for containerize the software. integrate unit-test, integration testing, linter with continuous integration pipeline. Package the containerized application for cloud-native deployment with Kubernetes clusters. Integrate monitoring and alerting frameworks and document alert response cookbook. Part-time telecommuting is an option. Hybrid work from F5 office in Seattle, WA.

Minimum Requirements: Bachelor’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering (any field) or a related quantitative discipline and one (1) year of experience in the job offered or in any occupation in related field.

Special Skill Requirements: (1) Python, (2) Go, (3) Google Cloud Platform (GCP), (4) Kubernetes, (5) GCP Dataflow or Apache Beam, (6) GCP Composer or Apache Airflow, (7) NoSQL Database, (8) Relational Database, (9) Service Mesh, (10) Distributed Backend System Design, (11) Microservice Design. Any suitable combination of education, training and experience is acceptable. Part-time telecommuting is an option. Hybrid work from F5 office in Seattle, WA.

Salary: $186,400 – $279,400 per annum. Benefits: F5 offers competitive pay, 401k, and other benefits: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits.

Submit a resume with references using the apply button on this posting or by email at: PeopleOps@f5.com at Req.# 19-7037

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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.