Software Engineer III (based in Hyderabad)

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.

Role Overview:

Are you passionate about working with smart people on challenging problems in an environment that values hard work, integrity and teamwork?  F5 Networks, 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 contributing member of the team, you will be integrated into cross functional working project teams in our Product Development organization. This position will provide you an opportunity to gain valuable, hands-on work experience working on a modern and modularized software ecosystem which uses the latest containerization technologies to power a software defined hardware platform. This platform hosts the F5’s applications to power the apps around the world.

As part of F5’s software engineering professionals, you will be tasked with our most challenging problems, building innovative high-quality solutions that are secure, scalable, and reliable. You will undertake challenging assignments that provide the opportunity for you to broaden your Operating Systems knowledge, vendor/3rd party provided packages, along with software installations and system software integration.
 

Sounds interesting? Read on!

What You’ll Do:

• You will help us identify and develop solutions to improve scalability, performance and simplify our platform and processes.

• Advocate for reliability and develop standards across services and teams.

• You will drive standardization efforts across multiple disciplines, systems, software, and teams

• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.

• Support Continuous Integration and Deployments across various environments.

• Evaluate and integrate or develop solutions for F5 environments for any security vulnerabilities.

What You’ll Bring:

• Minimum 5+ years of handling services in a large-scale distributed environment.

• Strong knowledge of C/C++ Programming languages.

• Knowledge of scripting languages (Python/Shell Scripts) is an added advantage.

• Basic networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, HTTPS, VLANs, DNS, load balancing and firewalling, etc.

• Working knowledge of Linux OS is a must.

• Understanding of microservices and communication methods like RESTConf/ZMQ/gRPC etc.

• Experience working in a containerized environment (Docker) and understanding of container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes is an advantage.

• Knowledge of Git/Gitswarm or any other source control software.

• Strong communication skills.

• Excellent customer service focus.

• You have a solid understanding of systems and application design, including the operational trade-offs of various designs.

• Creative problem-solving skills, critical thinking and excellent troubleshooting/debugging skills.

• You have strong interpersonal skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

• Be adaptable and able to focus while working with large, complex, and multi-team owned services.

• Can take initiative on tasks and work well in a remote team environment.

• You have an interest in working with distributed systems, microservices and modern container orchestration platforms and related systems (e.g. Kubernetes, docker).

What You’ll Get:

• Hybrid working mode

• Career growth and development opportunities  

• Recognitions and Rewards

• Employee Assistance Program

• Competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and cool perks

• Culture of Giving Back

• Dynamic Diversity & Inclusion Interest Groups

Apply if you believe your own unique capabilities can contribute to the success of this role and our organization!
 

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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.

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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.