Engineer II, Software

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. 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.

Position Summary

Are you passionate about working with smart people on challenging problems in an environment that values hard work, integrity and teamwork. F5 Inc. a Market leader in Application Delivery Controllers and Security platforms is hiring for its Centre of Excellence office in Hyderabad, India. Join our team of super smart engineers working in a fun, fast-paced, and highly technical environment where your dreams can become reality.

As a Software Engineer-II, you will be responsible for the design and development of features and components in the application/protocoal areas as well as the automation necessary to test and deploy new features. You’ll work with architects, leads, Product Management, cross-functional teams, and other stakeholders to implement solutions.

Mandatory Skills:

• Strong analytic / trouble-shooting skills.

• Good knowledge on C or C++.

• Good software designing skills, with object-oriented concepts.

• Good knowledge in user space programing, IPC, RPC, multithreading features.

• Able to collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced high-performance environment.

• Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communications.

Good to Have skills:

• Knowledge of docker containers, Kubernetes.

• Development experience with microservices.

• Exposure to networking stacks on windows, mac, linux etc.

• Agile based software development methodologies like SCRUM.

F5 Advantage:

• F5 is the Market leader for Hardware Application Delivery Controller. (i.e. which is a network device that helps web server performance by performing tasks such as: compression, cache, connection multiplexing, application layer security, SSL offload, and content switching; combined with basic server load balancing.)

• It is Great Place To Work certified.

• And promotes Diversity and Inclusion in all aspects.

Your Opportunities: 

• Design components and develop high quality code in Access Clients for F5’s Access Policy Manager.

• Exposure to state-of-the-art algorithms that optimize resource utilization, remove latency, and add resilience to the security inspection infrastructure.

• Work with leading Architects to find elegant solutions to hard technical problems and architecture designs.

• Chance to be part of the rapidly growing diverse and inclusive team of passionate engineers.

What you bring to the table: -

• Proficiency in C programming.

• Knowledge of C++ and Python.

• Knowledge and experience with network, security, and protocols such as TCP, UDP, IP, HTTP, L4-L7, DNS, DHCP, (D)TLS etc.

• Razor sharp analytical and trouble-shooting skills

• Obsession over custom needs, quality and thirst for solving complex problems.

What you will learn:

• Security protocols and standards like SAML, OAUTH, Kerberos, AAA, SSL VPN etc.

• Working in Agile environments with Agile methodologies

Who you are:

• 4+ years experienced graduate with no specific degree requirement but who can show evidence of innovation and engineering excellence.

• Can collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced high-performance environment.

• Can dive-in the existing code base, gain knowledge and fix bugs in those functional areas.

• Can test your own code by writing unit and integration tests and make sure it works in every environment every time.

• Are open minded, can research, evaluate and choose the best technical stack for our future.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering in CSE/ECE/IT/EEE/Computers

• Excellent organizational agility and interpersonal skills throughout the organization.

• Ability to work flexible hours for better collaboration with international teams.

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.  F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com.