Sr Engineer, Software

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About the Team

Come join our growing team! The Distributed Cloud Business Unit at F5 is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience in designing and developing distributed solutions. On our team, you will participate in the design and development of the data path modules of our distributed cloud offering, to deliver secure, fast and reliable solutions to anyone, anywhere, at any time.

You will work closely with Architects, Principal Engineers to continuously work to develop new features in the system, improve the quality of platform and ultimately, the customer experience. You will monitor the inflow of support issues and collaborate with the team to improve quality, scale and performance.

Position Summary

The Distributed Cloud Team is looking for a technically strong Senior Engineer who can work on our data path solutions in the lifecycle development of a multi cloud distributed platform. Experience with data path at L3/L4 or L7 is mandatory. Knowledge of Cloud services, Orchestration and Security aspects are highly desirable.

Professional Experience: 

•        Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Computer Science Engineering 

•        10+ years of experience in software design and development

Knowledge, Skills: 

• Experience in designing and developing distributed software

• Good understanding of computer networking (routing/switching) concepts, network security

• Extensive experience with programming languages like Golang, C/C++

• Needs good understanding of networking protocols, HTTP/HTTPS, Proxies

• Experience with load balancer products such as Envoy, Nginx, HA proxy is desirable

• Security infrastructure / product exposure will be an added advantage

Responsibilities

• Design and development of software solutions

• Understand requirements / use cases and proposed solutions, develop them in timely manner

• Unit test the software using automation framework

• Feature ownership and assisting the support team on customer issues

• Follow software development lifecycle

• Suggest improvements to the software and take up such activities

• Working with distributed teams

• Efficiently communicate/collaborate internally at F5.

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.