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Position Summary
The Distributed Cloud Team is looking for a technically resilient Engineer who can work on our data path solutions in the lifecycle development of a multi cloud distributed platform. Experience with the data path of a load balancer product is essential. Experience with Cloud services, Orchestration, Security is highly valuable.
Responsibilities
- Effectively lead data path areas of the Distributed Cloud (XC) product line.
- Understand the distributed systems deeply and design scalable solutions.
- Technically lead the implementation of major system components.
- Document software designs via functional specifications and other design documents.
- Proactively identifying and resolving key technical issues.
- Work on performance improvements across the platform.
- Investigate and propose solutions for the security vulnerabilities of Distributed Cloud platform and third-party packages used by the platform.
- Serve as a source of technical expertise to the product team and be a mentor for junior staff members.
- Keep abreast of new technologies, potential business partners.
- Efficiently communicate/collaborate internally at F5.
- Conduct presentations both internally and externally - this includes technical and non-technical colleagues and customers.
- Recommend and maintain technical design methodologies, processes and standards.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 14 years of significant software development and engineering experience.
- 10 or more years designing, implementing and evangelizing large scale distributed systems.
- Prior experience with cloud technology and networking, load balancers, routing platforms, control plane, SDN, Docker, Kubernetes, public cloud (Azure, AWS) etc.
- Experience with any commercial load balancer.
- Architectural skills and ability to deep dive into technical challenges.
- Aptitude for solving complex problems and attitude of transcending new/classic technology preferences in favour of finding right solutions for our customers.
- Specialist in various software architectures such as distributed systems and microservices.
- Strong engineering and design skills, with solid understanding of real-time high performance, scalable and distributed systems.
- Good communication, presentation skills and ability to work well in a development team.
- Proven experience driving complex SW development and test efforts in small and fast paced organizations, with an understanding of the trade-offs that must be made to ensure timeliness and quality.
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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 base pay for this position is: $199,952.00 - $299,928.00
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.
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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].
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F5 application services ensure that applications are always secure and perform the way they should—in any environment and on any device.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) powers applications from development through their entire life cycle, across any multi-cloud environment, so our customers – enterprise businesses, service providers, governments, and consumer brands—can deliver differentiated, high-performing, and secure digital experiences.
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