Sr Software Engineer

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.

Why do you want to join our team?

Life at F5 is never dull. We are constantly identifying industry trends and disruptions, then innovating to get ahead of future customer needs—creating application services that help the world’s leading organizations deliver their critical business apps faster and with the highest levels of flexibility, security, performance, and support.

F5 has innovated a consistent, cloud-native environment that can be deployed across multiple public clouds and edge sites — a distributed cloud platform. Within this SaaS-based offering, F5 integrates a broad range of services that have normally been siloed across many point products and network or cloud providers. The solution is designed to provide a single way to view security, operations and management components.

About the position:

F5 is looking for a Sr Software Engineer to join our team! You will participate in the development, design and implementation of F5's Edge Computing platform that is used to deploy global, scalable and secure applications.

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.
• Investigate and solve reported issues.
• Follow software development lifecycle.
• Suggest improvements to the software and take up such activities.
• Working with distributed teams.

Professional Experience:

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science.
• 5 to 10 years of software development experience.
• Proficiency in C++, object-oriented design, and design patterns(experience with Golang is a plus).
• Experience with load balancer products such as Envoy, NGINX, and HA proxy is desirable.
• Experience with controller software, routers / switches, SDN.
• Good understanding of IP networking, routing protocols, IPsec VPNs, SSL, Firewalls, Nat, Proxies, HTTP/HTTPS proxies.
• Experience with Kubernetes containers will be an added advantage.
• Security infrastructure / product exposure will be an added advantage.

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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.

The annual U.S. base pay range for this position is: $166,625.00 - $249,937.00

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.

You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice. 

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.