Engineer II, 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.

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 centres 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.

Position Summary

This position is responsible for on designing, developing, and testing components of highly scalable, distributed, and high performing carrier grade software solutions that ensure private, secure communications along with design, development and maintenance of key internal engineering tools and services for performance and scalability areas. perform as an individual contributor and work very closely with architects, leads, cross-functional teams and other stakeholders you will strengthen F5’s technology offerings, and collaborate with peers under the direction of technical leads on assigned project teams.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work on high performance network applications (L2 to L7)
• Strong experience in software test automation
• Design, implement and test components in a multitude of languages (Golang, Python).
• Ready for quick context switches and language agnostic debugging skills.
• Work closely with engineering, product, marketing, and customer support teams to engineer end-to-end solutions.
• Improve processes, tooling, and engineering standards.
• Have innovative problem-solving skills.
• Be a passionate and dependable team player.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Good understanding basic networking (routing/switching) concepts, network security, HTTP Load balancers etc
• Hands on experience in languages such as Golang, Python and Shell scripts etc.
• Knowledge of OSI Layer-1 to 7 including LAN switches, routers, tunnels, general TCP/IP and associated protocols preferred
• Strong hands-on experience in Docker and Kubernetes.
• Solid analytic/trouble-shooting skills.
• Solid knowledge and experience with test methodologies used in software development.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal, team building, and mentoring skills.
• Extensive knowledge of product life cycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree of Computer Science or a closely related field.

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].