Unified delivery & security for applications, APIs, & AI workloads across any infrastructure, trusted by 85% of the Fortune 500. Secure your digital ecosystem.
About the role
As a Principal Engineer at F5, you will play a hands-on technical leadership role in building and scaling F5’s AI Security and Delivery Platform . You will own end-to-end component design, data plane efficiency, control plane integrations, and advanced AI security and traffic delivery controls across multi-cloud and Kubernetes-native infrastructures. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 12+ years of software engineering experience building high-performance networking, API gateway, application delivery, distributed control plane, or cloud security infrastructure software
- Strong hands-on programming skills in Go, C, or Rust
- Demonstrated experience with Kubernetes internals , container orchestration, and multi-cloud networking primitives (AWS, Azure, GCP, Private Cloud)
- Solid understanding of the AI Software Development Lifecycle , modern AI application platforms, traffic optimization, and enterprise security protocols
- Proven ability to drive complex technical projects from concept to production deployment
More about this role
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.
As a Principal Engineer at F5, you will play a hands-on technical leadership role in building and scaling F5’s AI Security and Delivery Platform . You will own end-to-end component design, data plane efficiency, control plane integrations, and advanced AI security and traffic delivery controls across multi-cloud and Kubernetes-native infrastructures.
- System Design & Implementation: Design, code, and deploy resilient, scalable features for enterprise AI control planes and data planes utilizing Go, C, and Rust .
- AI Protection & Traffic Delivery: Implement advanced security controls, semantic policy enforcement, rate limiting, load...
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