Job Summary

• F5 Digital is building an enterprise-scale Agentic AI platform to enable secure, observable, and production-grade AI agents across the organization.
• The Principal Engineer will design and implement scalable agentic systems, establish engineering standards for AI workflows, and enable engineering teams to build production-ready agents using Gemini, Vertex AI, and internal AI infrastructure.
• This role will directly shape how F5 builds and scales agentic AI across engineering, sales, support, finance, and product teams, defining the technical foundation for AI development while ensuring enterprise-grade reliability, governance, and security.

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Salary

Base: $186,400.00 - $279,600.00; Bonus/Equity: Incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units; Benefits: Offered

Skills & Requirements

Key Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering
• Significant experience in distributed systems
• Significant experience in backend architecture
• Deep hands-on coding expertise in Python
• Production experience with LLM-based systems
• Experience with Vertex AI, Gemini APIs, or similar
• Strong understanding of API design
• Strong understanding of microservices
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures
• Experience building or integrating orchestration frameworks
• Familiarity with vector databases
• Familiarity with embedding pipelines
• Familiarity with retrieval strategies
• Strong understanding of authentication
• Strong understanding of authorization
• Strong understanding of enterprise security patterns

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