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 Team
F5 Networks sits between the Internet and some of the largest companies on Earth. We keep their applications running fast, safe, and efficiently. F5’s hardware and software products are highly configurable and blazingly fast. The Rapid Development Team (RDT) is the customer facing side of F5 Product Engineering and has the charter to keep our existing clientele happy. RDT accomplishes this through two major arenas – diagnosing and resolving the hardest customer issues using a dedicated group of elite software engineers who thrive on the hunt. Successful RDT developers solve difficult unique problems, can multi-task efficiently, communicate calmly, and enjoy playing the hero.
RDT has a unique vantage point within F5. Our Software Engineers understand the product in its entirety – not only how the features work but how they work together. This makes RDT engineers highly valued at F5. Some of the best engineers at F5 work for or have worked for RDT.
Position Summary
This position is responsible for the identification, evaluation, and solution of complex software issues. Must also be able to design, develop, and maintain high-quality code for product components. Perform as an individual contributor and collaborate with peers under the direction of technical leads on assigned project teams. Requires little direct management to complete most of the development tasks.
Primary Responsibilities
Evaluate and solve software failures
Improve the existing functionality
Work cross functionally integrating, testing and debugging issues with existing system wide software
Collaborate with team members and technical leads
Build tools and infrastructure to improve F5’s components and features
Perform other related duties as assigned
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Essential:
Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms
Strong expertise in Layer 2/3 forwarding logic and core networking protocols, including the implementation and troubleshooting of routing (BGP, OSPF) and complex encapsulation/tunneling schemas (VXLAN, MPLS, IKE, GRE).
Experience with network and web technologies such as TCP, UDP, IP, HTTP, L4-L7, DNS and such
Hands-on programming experience in any one of C, C++ or Go.
Excellent analytic / troubleshooting and debugging skills
Experience programming in Linux networking and OS internals
Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communications
Strong expertise in performing analysis of the data path within Kubernetes environments. Candidates must be proficient in isolating performance bottlenecks, diagnosing intermittent packet drops, and resolving regressions within the container networking stack.
Proven ability to reproduce complex customer network topologies to simulate and validate high-throughput workloads.
Nice-to-have:
Experience with one or more scripting language such as Python, shell script, JavaScript and/or node.js
Experience in high performance data plane proxies such as Envoy, HAProxy or Nginx.
Experience with DPDK or eBPF frameworks.
Experience in production alerts management and using dashboards to debug issues.
Expertise in utilizing Kibana, Grafana, and Loki to analyze system telemetry and high-cardinality data.
Skilled in constructing complex queries (LogQL, Lucene, KQL) to build specialized dashboards
Qualifications
Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree; or 3 years and a master's degree; or a PhD with 1 year of experience; or equivalent work experience.
Environment
Empowered Work Culture: Experience an environment that values autonomy, fostering a culture where creativity and ownership are encouraged.
Continuous Learning: Benefit from the mentorship of experienced professionals with solid backgrounds across diverse domains, supporting your professional growth.
Team Cohesion: Join a collaborative and supportive team where you'll feel at home from day one, contributing to a positive and inspiring workplace.
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: $137,600.00 - $206,400.00F5 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].
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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.
