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.
Why do you want to join our team?Life at F5 is never dull. We are constantly identifying industry trends and disruptions, then innovating to get ahead of future customer needs—creating application services that help the world’s leading organizations deliver their critical business apps faster and with the highest levels of flexibility, security, performance, and support.
But our success isn’t driven solely by what we do. We care deeply about how we do it. At F5, our culture is how we live every single day. This produces extraordinary results—not only for our customers but also for our employees. We are committed to a culture that supports your whole life.
Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to build and support the most exciting missions in the world! You get the adventure and independence of working at a start-up without any of the financial risks because you are supported by a growing Fortune 1000 technology company.
What will you do?
Our Software Development Engineer provides software development support by analyzing business requirements to design and develop appropriate system solutions. They bring technical expertise in evaluating, designing, developing, deploying, monitoring, and supporting systems and procedures that are cost-effective and improve work efficiency. The Software Development Engineer also collaborates with Enterprise and Solution Architects to ensure applications meet company service level standards and roadmap requirements.
Your Primary Responsibilities will include:
- Design Reliable Full-Stack Solutions:
- Analyze and translate complex business requirements into scalable, reusable, and future-proof system solutions.
- Develop full-stack applications (Salesforce front-end and back-end customizations) with occasional work on cross-platform frameworks like React, Next.js, or Python to enable broader solutions.
- Agentic Frameworks Expertise:
- Develop and implement solutions using agentic frameworks such as AgentForce, or an equivalent, for automating processes and driving efficiency.
- Salesforce Development:
- Create robust Salesforce features (Apex, Aura, LWC components) with secure and high-performance design.
- Seamlessly integrate Salesforce with external/internal systems and authentication patterns (e.g., OAuth).
- AI-Driven Enhancements:
- Apply AI-driven tools like Copilot or Codex to optimize workflows and introduce predictive and automation features into systems.
- Cloud and AWS Development:
- Build, deploy, and maintain services using AWS ecosystem tools. Adapt integration practices with secure authentication methods such as API Gateway and IAM roles.
- CI/CD, DevOps, and Agile:
- Manage CI/CD pipelines for seamless application deployment using tools like GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
- Collaborate within an Agile/Scrum environment, engaging dynamically with architects and product stakeholders.
- Monitor and Improve Systems:
- Partner with reliability engineers to ensure applications meet performance, security, and operational needs.
- Identify opportunities for innovation using AI tools to enhance automation and productivity.
Other Responsibilities
- Uphold F5’s Business Code of Ethics and promptly report any violations.
- Contribute to company culture through teamwork and innovation.
- Provide excellent customer service and support to both internal and external stakeholders.
What do you need to be successful in this role?
- Experience & Expertise:
- 5+ years of full-stack development experience at scale, with strong exposure to Salesforce and agentic frameworks (e.g., AgentForce or other).
- Advanced Salesforce skills: AgentForce, Data Cloud, Apex, Aura, and Lightning Web Components.
- Proven ability to build solutions using agentic platforms for process automation and scalability.
- Solid understanding of AWS services (deployment, authentication, integration patterns).
- Technical Skills:
- Proficient in web development and cross-platform frameworks (React, TypeScript, Java Spring Boot, Python).
- Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, CosmosDB).
- Competence in leveraging AI-assisted workflows for development cycles and automation.
- Soft Skills & Values:
- Strong communication skills, Agile methodology experience, and problem-solving abilities.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent field.
- Commitment to teamwork, innovation, and customer-centric results.
Our values:
At F5, we live and breathe our core values: Excellence, Integrity, Collaboration, Customer Loyalty, Profitable Growth, Innovation, Employee Success, and Diversity. We help each other achieve our goals, value diverse ideas from different backgrounds, emphasize teamwork, and most importantly, we have fun.
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].
Skills Required
- 6+ years building full-stack systems at scale
- 10+ years software engineering experience (or equivalent) with recent ML/AI production experience
- Strong experience in React.js, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, Go, Java
- Hands-on experience with AWS (S3, DynamoDB, Aurora, Kinesis) and Azure (Blob Storage, Cosmos DB, AKS)
- Strong programming skills in Python and experience writing production-quality services and APIs
- Deep applied ML expertise: model training, evaluation, feature engineering, experimental design, and productionization
- Hands-on experience with LLMs: fine-tuning, prompt engineering, RAG, conversational agents, summarization, mitigation of failure modes
- Strong MLOps and data engineering experience: data pipelines, model CI/CD, monitoring, automated retraining; familiarity with Spark/Databricks and SQL
- Proficient in Java frameworks (Spring Boot, Hibernate) and building high-performance backend systems
- Proficient in testing Java applications using JUnit, TestNG, Mockito, Selenium, and Cucumber
- Experience with CI/CD tools: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins
- Infrastructure as Code experience: Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates
- Containerization and orchestration: Docker and Kubernetes (AKS/EKS)
- Experience with event-driven architectures (Solace, Kafka, AWS SNS/SQS)
- Experience integrating AI with platform systems (Salesforce Service Cloud/Experience Cloud, Coveo) and cloud data platforms
- Experience delivering cloud-native services with production security, identity, and networking concerns (FedRAMP/GovCloud considerations where required)
- Experience with responsive design and UI/UX best practices
- Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions and communicate tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders
- Instrument KPIs and observability for AI features (deflection rate, CSAT, latency, drift)
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field, or equivalent experience
F5 Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about F5 and has not been reviewed or approved by F5.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity grants and an employee stock purchase plan are positioned as meaningful parts of total compensation, with RSUs and a discount ESPP commonly included. Pay packages for many technical roles are considered competitive when equity is taken into account.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid vacation that increases with tenure, sick time, paid holidays, and paid family leave are prominently featured. Additional programs like volunteer time and periodic wellness long weekends are highlighted as part of the time-off ecosystem.
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Inclusive Benefits Coverage — Health plans include travel support for specific care (such as reproductive and gender‑affirming services) and mental health resources, alongside comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage. These elements are presented as part of a broad, inclusive approach to healthcare.
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What We Do
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.
