Senior Software Development Engineer

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 everyone can thrive.

The Senior Software Engineer plays a key role in building enterprise applications for F5’s Infrastructure Engineering Data Team.

The Senior Engineer is a leader who continually looks for ways to improve our solutions, architects, and builds data-driven solutions that empower teams across the organization to make better, faster decisions.

You will be an active engaged participant in leading the design and development of an enhanced telemetry pipeline, enhancing performance and operational excellence.

Primary Responsibilities 

• Set technical direction for scalable and secure data pipeline systems, defining what “good” looks like and championing best practices and design patterns.
• Foster a human-first engineering culture by leading with empathy, kindness, and integrity in day-to-day interactions and decision-making.
• Build collaboration across teams and functions to drive alignment on outcomes and unblock systemic issues that slow delivery or reduce quality.
• Own software components end-to-end, raising standards for functional excellence, scale, performance, security and operability, and leaving systems measurably better than you found.
• Multiply team impact through technical leadership and mentoring, uplifting engineering judgement, design quality, and execution habits.
• Recommend, establish and maintain technical design methodologies and processes to raise quality and reduce risk, challenging the status quo when needed.
• Drive quality improvements by implementing automated testing strategies.
• Develop and maintain quality gates for continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• Independently investigate, present options, review, and implement completely new functionality.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to ensure high quality project delivery.
• Drive increased development velocity and capability by leveraging AI coding agents.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Be Kind.
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• Expertise with any combination of programming languages: Golang, Java, Python, Scala, C++ or any high-level proprietary or open-source language with strong programming constructs. Expertise in building and operating high-scale data pipelines
• Strong background with SQL or NoSQL databases and performance tuning.
• Strong experience with distributed compute technologies, such as Flink, Spark, EMR
• Familiarity with system observability and monitoring.
• Hands on experience with Docker and Kubernetes as well as developing applications using microservices architecture with Cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
• Strong interpersonal, team-building, and mentoring skills. Ability to independently work across team boundaries and own projects.
• Ability to guide team members on technical aspects.
• Implementation experience with Machine Learning models and AI techniques for improved decision making.

Preferred

• Experience with PromQL, Tableau, and/or Grafana.

Environment

• Freedom and Learning: Embrace an environment that values continuous learning and ownership.
• Mentorship: Benefit from great mentors with solid backgrounds in various areas, eager to contribute to your professional development.
• Team Collaboration: Join a great team where you'll feel at home from day one, contributing to a positive and supportive workplace culture.

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.

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. 

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].