About F5:

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.

Job Description: Principal Software Engineer - Platform

F5 is the global leader in delivering and securing every app and API. Trusted by Global Fortune 500 companies, F5 keeps applications and APIs fast, available, and secure across the complex hybrid multicloud environments where modern digital business operates. Through the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP), F5 converges application delivery and security to reduce complexity, strengthen resilience, and protect digital experiences at scale.

About the Position:

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our ADSP - F5 Connector program team in Bangalore. The F5 Connector is a critical architectural component of the ADSP - it provides the bridge between customer on-premises and cloud-deployed infrastructure and F5's cloud-native SaaS services. As a Principal Engineer, you will own the architecture, performance, and reliability of the connector's data plane and control plane. This is a high-performance, systems-level role requiring deep expertise in Rust / C++ to build software that operates at massive scale.

Roles and Responsibilities:

- 12+ years of experience in software engineering in a fast-paced environment with most recent 3+ years as Architect or Principal Engineer with ability to architect & design large scale enterprise class platforms in microservice based solution and architectural style.

- Hands-on coding in Rust / C++, be able to conceptualize and develop prototype quickly.

- Drive technical roadmap of the team in collaboration with Engineering and Product.

- Leverage AI to write code that adheres to the requirements, is cost-effective and maintainable.

- Familiarity with the OpenTelemetry Arrow Protocol (OTAP) for efficient, columnar-encoded transport of telemetry data.

- Grasp of bi-directional (bidi) streaming via gRPC, including flow control, multiplexed streams, back-pressure handling, and long-lived connection management.

- Added plus: Experience with Apache Arrow columnar memory format.

- Own the end-to-end architecture of the F5 Connector, encompassing the data plane and control plane.

- Mentor senior and junior engineers across Bangalore and global teams; Perform code reviews, set coding practices and guidelines within the team.

- Experience working with all the phases of a development cycle for a software product.

- Work with geographically distributed teams.