Principal Software Engineer
F5 Networks · San Jose, CA
About this role
F5 Networks is hiring a principal-level Software Engineer based in San Jose, CA. The posting calls out experience with Go, C, AWS, Kubernetes and roughly 14+ years of relevant work. Compensation is listed at $203,200–$304,800 per year.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- principal
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- San Jose, CA
- Experience
- 14+ years
- Posted
- Apr 20, 2026
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Job description
from F5 Networks careersAt 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.
At F5, we are building a Cloud Native solutions to support large-scale, high-performance, and highly available services across multi-cloud environments. The Data Plane Team at F5 is seeking an experienced Principal Engineer with deep technical knowledge of Routing technologies, networking fundamentals, and distributed systems. You will work on the development and lifecycle of a multi-cloud distributed platform, leveraging Kubernetes (K8s) for orchestration.
The ideal candidate will have deep technical expertise in BGP, MP-BGP, MPLS, networking fundamentals, and distributed systems, with Kubernetes orchestration. You will be responsible for designing and implementing scalable and resilient control and data plane solutions while bringing leadership experience and technical acumen to influence the future direction of our product.