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.

Senior Software Engineer – Distributed Cloud

Join the team working on F5’s next-generation cloud-native ADC-as-a-Service platform. We're building a high-performance, programmable application delivery platform at global scale. This is a rare opportunity to shape core infrastructure, work across Customer Edge (CE) and Regional Edge (RE) deployments, and build cutting-edge observability, security, and automation features. If you're passionate about performance, scale, and elegant systems design—this is your moment.

About the F5 Cloud and Edge Team 

At F5, we make apps faster, smarter, and safer. Come work within the F5 Cloud and Edge team in a fast past environment charting the course for F5’s future. You will join an effort to contribute to F5’s cloud and edge solutions to secure and accelerate our customers’ applications. Be a part of a company known for our excellent culture. We believe that cultivating leadership, ownership, driving clarity of purpose and supporting growth with every person is the key to our success!   

Primary Responsibilities

• Implement all phases of the development cycle for a software product from understanding requirements, going through design, development and deployment phases
• Work collaboratively with geographically distributed teams
• Engage with Product Management, architects and other technical peers to ensure we are delivering the right things.
• Design and develop platform capabilities within distributed and cloud architectures

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Experience in designing and implementing solutions for complex large-scale problems for distributed systems in SaaS environment
• Extensive hands-on experience in multiple computer programming languages such as Golang, Java, C/C++, Python
• Deep expertise and experience in Kubernetes development e.g., controllers, CRD design,
• Experience with Object Modeling and GRPC/Protobuf, REST microservices and code generation
• The candidate should be self-motivated and willing to delve into new areas and take new challenges in a proactive manner.
• Good understanding and experience with synchronization concepts
• Working knowledge of virtualization technologies such as KVM or Docker
• Working knowledge of public cloud technologies and associated orchestration technologies
• Experience delivering software with agile and lean software development
• The candidate is expected to have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Qualifications

• 8+ years' professional development experience
• BS/BA or MS in Computer Science/related field or equivalent work experience.

F5 Networks, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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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: $151,477.00 - $227,215.00

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: