This role pays more than
86%
of similar roles. Most pay
$174,600–$231,000
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$258k
versus about
$203k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About F5 Inc
F5, Inc. is an American technology company specializing in application security, multi-cloud management, online fraud prevention, application delivery networking, application availability and performance, and network security, access, and authorization.
F5 Inc currently has
29 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$160,800–$241,200
across 23 roles with salary data.
As a Principal Software Development Engineer within the AI Security team, you will design and implement robust, low-latency services and APIs for a B2B SaaS multi-tenant architecture and self-hosted platform. Your daily responsibilities include building and refining forward and reverse proxies, implementing observability tools for proactive monitoring, and leveraging agentic frameworks to accelerate development workflows. You will lead architectural decisions, mentor junior developers, and evaluate emerging technologies to improve system efficiency. The role requires expert proficiency in Go programming, along with skills in Python or TypeScript, network protocols, and public API design. Candidates should possess experience in traffic interception, dynamic policy enforcement, and LLM concepts such as RAG architectures and prompt engineering. You will solve complex technical challenges involving high-performance infrastructure to ensure secure and optimized performance for diverse client environments.
What does a Software Development Engineer earn?
Median $169050 from 193 postings across 17 companies.
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