Software Development Engineer III

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.

We’re looking for a Software Development Engineer III with deep experience building and scaling SaaS platforms in distributed cloud. This role requires a hands-on development experience with strong technical knowledge of networking fundamentals, microservice architecture, and deliver complex, distributed systems while working with team members and driving cross-functional alignment. 

 You’ll lead design and development of scalable microservices, define engineering best practices, and help shape the future of our SaaS platform Data Plane components. This is a highly influential role focused on delivering performant, secure, resilient and reliable solutions that aligns with business objective. 

 What You’ll Do 

• Develop and maintain applications using Golang/C++, emphasizing scalability and high availability in distributed cloud environments.

• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following industry best practices and coding standards.

• Implement/enhance unit test infrastructure to increase test coverage progressively to deliver high quality software considering boundary and rainy day scenario.
• Drive design reviews and partner with stakeholders to align technical solutions with product strategy.
• Lead development of scalable, enterprise-grade data-plane components and APIs.

• Take ownership of software components, ensuring the delivery of complete solutions that meet functional, scalability, performance, and manageable requirements.

• Influence cross-team technical direction and ensure alignment with scalability, security, and observability best practices.

What You Bring 

• Proficiency in C++/Golang, with a strong track record of contributing to complex software development projects.

• Proven hands-on experience in microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, Gitlab, CI/CD) 

• Strong understanding of OSI layer networking stack, NAT, DHCP, DNS, TCP, IPv4/IPv6
• Good memory and CPU profiling understanding and drives independently optimisation or refactoring the existing code

• Good Linux system concepts like file management, namespace, process management and memory management.
• Excellent analytical and debugging skills with a track record of owning mission-critical systems 

• Strong communication and leadership skills, with experience mentoring teams and influencing technical direction 

Qualifications 

• 5+ years of L3/L4/L7 networking, data-path packet processing software engineering experience in cloud-native environments 

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent industry experience

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 [email protected].