Software 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.

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.

About the Position:
 

F5 Inc, is looking for Software Engineer III with experience in high scale distributed systems. You will participate in the design and implementation of F5’s Edge Computing platform that is used to deploy global, scalable and secure applications. Your work includes, but not limited to, research, design and build highly reliable, available and scalable platforms, API definition, implementation, deployment, operational management, and debugging.
 

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and reliable software solutions using GoLang.
• Develop microservices and APIs to support a variety of applications and business processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and contribute to the development of cutting-edge products.
• Work on the end-to-end delivery of software products, from design and implementation to testing and deployment.
• Contribute to the architecture, design, and development of cloud-native applications on platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Utilize strong Git skills and champion best practices in CI/CD workflows to ensure efficient and reliable software delivery.
• Investigate and resolve software defects, ensuring optimal software performance.
• Implement unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests for GoLang applications.
• Stay updated on emerging trends and best practices in GoLang development and advocate for their adoption within the team.
• Possess knowledge of multi-cloud networking, DNS, and load balancers.
• Work with geographically distributed teams

Minimum Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience in highly distributed software systems, ability to understand the nuances and solve problems related to scale, performance and resiliency of such a system
• Expertise with any or combination programming languages: Golang, Java, Python, Scala, any objected oriented high level proprietary or open source language with strong programming constructs.
• Good understanding of programming fundamentals & their application to highly scalable web-based systems
• Experience in developing polyglot software using service definition language and framework like gRPC, Thrift, Google Protocol Buffers, OpenAPI etc.
• Must have hands on SQL or No SQL technologies.
• Strong understanding of modern CICD methodology and Git based workflow
• Experience in Docker technologies including experience in optimizing Docker image and managing Docker image lifecycle. Experience in orchestration systems like Kubernetes and container technologies like Docker, rkt is a plus
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal, team building, and mentoring skills
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 5+ years of software development 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