# Senior Principal Engineer at F5

- Company: F5
- What the company does: Unified delivery & security for applications, APIs, & AI workloads across any infrastructure, trusted by 85% of the Fortune 500. Secure your digital ecosystem.
- Company website: https://www.f5.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Jose
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-21
- Apply by: 2026-12-05
- Apply: https://ffive.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/f5jobs/job/San-Jose/Senior-Principal-Engineer_RP1039174?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
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## About the role

As a Senior Principal Engineer at F5, you will serve as a primary technical authority driving the architecture, strategy, and execution of F5’s next-generation AI Security and Delivery Platform . You will design high-performance, resilient, and secure control plane and data plane architectures that safeguard, optimize, deliver, and route critical traffic across enterprise AI workloads and modern application infrastructure across hybrid public and private cloud environments. 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
- 15+ years of software engineering experience with a proven track record of architectural leadership in enterprise networking, cloud security, API/gateway infrastructure, or application delivery platforms
- Advanced proficiency in Go, C, and Rust for high-performance system-level and network software development
- Deep experience in distributed control plane design, high-performance data plane packet processing, application delivery controllers (ADCs), reverse proxies, and API management systems
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes architecture , custom controllers, container networking, and multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP, private cloud)
- Solid understanding of the AI Software Development Lifecycle , AI application workloads, enterprise AI security frameworks, and traffic delivery dynamics


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