Sr Engineer, 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.

Our Employees

Are valued and empowered, collaborative and team oriented, innovative in their approach and passionate about their work. They are reliable, trustworthy and open with a high level of integrity. They value diversity, are inclusive and are committed to a global mindset. 

About the Product

Using high-performance DNS services, Global Traffic Manager (GTM) scales and secures your DNS infrastructure during high query volumes and DDoS attacks. It delivers a complete, real-time DNSSEC solution that protects against hijacking attacks. GTM improves the performance and availability of your applications by intelligently directing users to the closest or best-performing physical, virtual, or cloud environment. In addition, enables mitigation of complex threats from malware and viruses by blocking access to malicious IP domains. 

Position Summary

Our team is at the cutting-edge of DNS technology.  We are focused on providing customers with solutions to improve access to applications by securing and accelerating Domain Name resolution in hybrid cloud environments.  Our team collaborates with other F5 Modular BIG-IP development teams to produce unique opportunities for cross-team development projects.

This position is for a Senior Software Engineer with strong experience designing and developing application data management software in containerized and orchestrated environments. The engineer will collaborate with software architects and other technical leads to design software and interfaces for our next generation Modular BIG-IP.

We are looking for talented software engineers with a track record of accomplishment in the design, implementation and maintenance of major software features.  Appropriate candidates should also have a knack for delving into complex deployment configurations and delivering rapid solutions to challenging problems.

Responsibilities

• Develop enterprise grade solutions for the F5 DNS products in containerized and orchestrated environments.

• Aggressively grow your skillset and expertise to meet the emerging needs of our customers using our new Modular BIG-IP technology

• Define, collect and interpret product and system requirements to design, implement and maintain software solutions to meet our customer needs.

• Develop and maintain a strong CICD pipeline to efficiently diagnose and resolve critical issues prior to software releases.

• Work as part of a Scrum team while recommending and maintaining technical design methodologies, processes, and standards

• Provide technical mentorship to lower-level engineers

 Qualifications

• 6+ year of professional experience in multi-platform network software development, in a commercial production environment.

• Bachelor degree in computer/engineering related field or equivalent work experience

• Proven programming skills/abilities in C, C++, and Go

• Strong Experience with deploying infrastructure and services in one or more cloud environments such as AWS, VMware vSphere, Azure, Google cloud, …

• Strong development experience in areas such as sockets, multithreading, and data structure optimization. Familiarity with TCP/IP networking a strong plus.

• Experienced with at least one scripting language such as Python, Perl, … Understanding of regexes

• Development experience using Agile Scrum methodology and Git version control

• Background in Unix based operating systems specifically, x86/Linux

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills paired with strong mentorship experience

• Proven ability to deliver products with highest quality and on time

• Strong written and verbal communications skills

• Ability to interact and communicate effectively with users of our products.

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.