Software Engineer III

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Job Description for Software Engineer III/Senior Engineer at NGINX

Nginx Core Product Development Team, USA

Do you have a passion for innovation and want to help promote progressive products used daily by millions of people on the Internet? Would you like to be part of shipping groundbreaking technology for cloud-native, hybrid-cloud, and traditional on-premises large-scale systems, and web applications? Are you an advocate of strong engineering culture and continuous learning? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

About the team and projects

Our mission is to create a software-based dataplane for modern applications: web servers and application servers, API gateways and load balancers, reverse proxies and caching proxies. We create software that millions of engineers use to serve the needs of billions of people.

We believe that solid engineering culture helps us create great open-source tools and commercial software that developers love, and platform operations teams need. By thoroughly designing, coding, reviewing, testing, and documenting, we build scalable, high-performing, and secure software.

The Nginx core product development team works on the Nginx, Nginx Plus, Nginx JavaScript (njs), and other projects. Nginx is a well-known open-source web server and proxy. Nginx Plus is commercial software that adds enterprise-grade features like high availability, observability, security, API, health checks, advanced load balancing features, and more to the capabilities of the Nginx.

Our software runs on any modern Unix-like OS and supports different architectures. Its core is written in C with minimum external dependencies and focuses on high performance, low latency, and scalability.

We are looking for passionate software engineers to join our mission.

The Nginx core development team has members in the US, Europe, and the UAE. We collaborate with other software engineering teams who build their products on top of our software. We also work with professional services, product management, customer support, community and alliances, and technical marketing teams.

Primary Responsibilities

• Research, design, implement, and verify new features.
• Consistently apply good software design, code, and test principles.
• Research and evaluate new technologies that can be leveraged in our products.
• Effectively communicate and collaborate with team members (software engineers, product managers, tech leads, architects) and community of users to understand expectations, requirements and use cases, product architecture, dependencies, tools, priorities, and trends to build a better product.
• Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms. Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner. 
• Partner with PMs to break down tasks, provide estimates, and discuss tradeoffs.
• Provide technical leadership in handling technical, product, and organizational complexities.
• Handle code reviews, share, and receive feedback, act on it.
• Maintain existing code base, review, and improve/refactor existing code, investigate, fix, and verify bugs.
• Implement refinements based on feedback from engineers or users, the data from the root cause analysis, and internally found defects.
• Support NGINX open-source community by reviewing submitted changes, answering questions, providing feedback and insights.
• Write technical documentation for internal and/or external consumption, for developers of varying skills level. 
   

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Expert-level programming experience with C/C++ (Rust, JS, Python, and Perl is a plus)
• Extensive experience in Unix-like operating systems and common development toolchains
• Strong understanding of network (including cloud-based networking), web protocols, proxies, load balancing
• You have experience with high performance computing, event-based programming, and fault tolerance
• Strong analytic, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
• Great self-discipline and focus on engineering excellence
• Ability to work independently and creatively across familiar and unfamiliar technologies and practice self-organization in achieving results.
• Dedicated to learning new things
• Strong sense of teamwork and ability to leverage team knowledge
• Experience with open-source development and tools
• Experience serving as a mentor to other technical staff and providing team leadership
• Strong written and verbal communications skills, with an emphasis on communicating software architecture and design, and with the ability to articulate complex technology simply
• Strong knowledge of continuous delivery, testing, security practices, performance, and disaster recovery
• Experience supporting mission-critical, large-scale systems in production environments 

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science or a related field.

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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.

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

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