Sr Software Engineer, Distributed Cloud

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.

Position Summary   

F5 Distributed Cloud Platform is a world class, mission critical and highly reliable platform serving a global customer base. Our customers depend on us to keep their business highly available and secure around the planet. 

We are rapidly expanding our platform in many dimensions – global footprint, infrastructure, performance, low latency etc., We are looking for a Software Engineer to join this mission. 

        

Responsibilities   

• Design and implement software systems that are highly distributed, concurrent and reliable to manage the lifecycle of our Distributed Cloud. 

• Implement fully tested code with Observability and Telemetry for Day 2 operations. 

•  Work closely with Product, Platform Services and SRE Engineers to make this system scale to the needs of business. 

• Innovate by bringing the best of ideas to life and help business grow.  

• Learn and share your ideas and practices, inside and outside the company, to uplift the entire engineering community. 

   

Required Qualifications   

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience (7+ years).   

• Strong foundational understanding of systems, Linux Kernel, TCP/IP stack, K8s. 

• Proficiency in Cloud native development and programming languages such as GO, Rust and Python . 

• Must demonstrate deep understanding of K8s machinery and have experience deploying Models (CRDs), Controllers and/or Operators in a mission critical environment. 

• Must have skills in building large scale distributed systems, highly resilient, reliable and mission critical using K8s machinery. 

• Must have experience in managing lifecycle of software systems with CI/CD using tools ArgoCD or similar. 

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and end to end debugging skills in a highly asynchronous event driven system. 

• Experience working in a 24x7 uptime SaaS environment with global customer base. 

 

• Preferred extensive knowledge and/or experience in the domains of Network, routing, Infra, Underlay to VPN, DNS, Load Balancer technologies 

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: $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.