Sr Engineer, Software

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Position Summary

This position will be part of BIG-IP Next Central Manager instance management core team. This person is responsible for the maintenance, enhancement, design and development of the current and future Central Manager features around the integration of Big-IP devices. Designs, develops and maintains high-quality code for complex product requirements. Self-driven, manages assigned projects independently and may serve as technical expert for issues associated with specific projects, occasionally assisting Principal, Sr. Principal and Architects with design details.

Primary Responsibilities

• Independently determines and develops approaches to solutions for assigned projects by identifying, resolving and mitigating risk and communicating to stakeholders

• Provides technical solutions to detail certain aspects of product design and ensures that resulting design specification fits into technical architectural framework.

• Recommends and maintains technical design methodologies, processes and standards

• Provides technical guidance/mentoring to lower-level engineers

• Assists Principal Engineers, Architects and Management with project scope

• Assisting and driving customer solutions

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong analytic/trouble-shooting skills

• Can collaborate in a fast high-performance arena with globally distributed development teams.

• Excellent articulation, written and verbal communications.

• Excellent design, ideation and problem-solving skills

• Strong and relevant experience with devices and instance management

• Excellent knowledge on microservices and cloud-based modern architecture.

• Prior product development experience with a proven track record and hands-on programming skills involving Golang, c++, Python, Java or equivalent language.

• Hands-on experience with Test Driven Development, System Testing and Smoke Testing

• Self-driven, self-motivated individual with leadership skills and a team player.

• Excellent knowledge on Kubernetes, including (but not limited to):

  • Kubernetes environments

  • Deployments, services, configmaps, ingress etc.

  • Building, deploying and debugging helm charts.

• Excellent knowledge of Docker and similar container-based technologies, including (but not limited to):

  • Dockerfile creation

  • Docker build

• Hands on experience with source control tools, such as: GitHub, GitLab, etc.

• Hands on experience with diverse types of databases, including (but not limited to):

  • RDBMS and NoSql DBs, including PosgreSQL, ElasticSearch.

  • Distributed databases

  • TimeSeries

  • BR & DR, RTO and RPO plans/strategies

• Experience with scale and performance testing would be an added plus

• Understanding of networking concepts and protocols

• Understanding of security concepts and transport layer security (SSL/TLS)

• Extensive knowledge of product life cycle.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years experience; or equivalent experience.

F5 Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.

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.