Software Engineer III - Telemetry & Observability

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.

• Independently determines and develops approaches to solutions for assigned projects by identifying, resolving and mitigating risk and communicating to others
• Provides technical solutions to detail certain aspects of product design and ensures that resulting design specification fits into technical architectural framework.
• Performs analysis to define design requirements for modification to existing tools, utilities, system structures, environments and provide technical perspective for input into project scope and estimating activities
• Recommends and maintains technical design methodologies, processes and standards
• Provides technical guidance to junior level engineers
• Assist Tech Leads and Management with project scope
• Consistently meet commitments
• Assisting and driving customer solutions
• Participates in hiring and onboarding process
• Conducts presentations internally and externally
   

• Required Skills -
  • Excellent coding skills in C or C++ or Go.
  • Mastery of standard data structures and algorithms, run-time complexities, IPC, etc. is required.
  • Must have background in networking technologies & protocols like IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, HTTP etc.
  • Experience in complex Kubernetes orchestrated micro services is a must
  • Experience building telemetry solutions with open source OTEL, Prometheus etc is needed
  • Exceptional problem solving, analytical and trouble-shooting skills.
  • Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 year with a Master’s degree; or equivalent experience.
     
• Preferred Skills -
  • Experience building analytics dashboards for stats aggregation is a plus
  • Good knowledge in working with observability data: logs, metrics, and traces.
  • Experience with Linux, node storage, Kubernetes RBAC etc is desirable
  • Experience with gitlab/github or other source code management is needed.
  • Able to collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced high-performance environment
  • Regularly demonstrates collaboration by promoting others’ ideas, working well within and other teams, influencing others, and making teams successful.
  • Candidate must be passionate enjoy solving complex problems. This is a fast paced, innovative environment and requires candidate to grasp new technologies quickly. Often knowledge is self-taught as formal training in emerging technologies may not exist.
  • Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communications. Regularly finds ways to communicate widely through discussions, white papers, publications, and other.
  • Willingness and ability to write good functional specification and design documents.

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].