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As a Senior Software Development Engineer bridges software development and quality assurance, writing code to build automated test frameworks, validate complex system architectures, and lead quality strategy across engineering teams.
Core Responsibilities
- AI-Driven Automation Infrastructure: Design, build, and scale end-to-end automated testing frameworks, integrating AI agents for autonomous test generation, maintenance, and self-healing suites.
- Framework Architecture: Develop and maintain scalable test tooling and infrastructure across backend APIs, distributed cloud architectures, and web/mobile interfaces.
- AI & LLM Validation: Establish testing strategies for features powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), focusing on prompt regression, hallucination detection, bias evaluation, and determinism.
- Code & Quality Reviews: Act as a technical subject matter expert (SME) for code hygiene, guiding design reviews, and evaluating testability and architectural health.
- Test Strategy & Coverage: Define and drive test strategies spanning functional, regression, API, performance, load, contract, and chaos/resilience engineering.
- CI/CD Integration: Integrate automated test suites and infrastructure into continuous integration and deployment pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab)
- Debugging & Root Cause Analysis: Investigate complex system failures, performance bottlenecks, race conditions, and production issues.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with software developers, product managers, and DevOps teams to align acceptance criteria and improve system observability.
- Mentorship: Guide junior and mid-level engineers while advocating for a strong quality-first culture.
Key Requirements & Skills
- Experience: Typically 5 to 9+ years of combined experience in software development, backend engineering, or specialized SDET/test engineering roles.
- Programming Languages: Proficiency in languages such as Python(highly preferred for AI workflows), Java, TypeScript.
- Automation Frameworks: Hands-on experience with modern tools like Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or TestNG/JUnit.
- Cloud & Distributed Systems: Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerized or distributed stacks (Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, Cassandra).
- Infrastructure & Monitoring: Experience using observability and logging tools (e.g., Grafana, New Relic, Elasticsearch)
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.
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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
- 5 to 9+ years of combined experience in software development, backend engineering, or SDET/test engineering
- Proficiency in Python, Java, or TypeScript
- Hands-on experience with Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or TestNG/JUnit
- Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, or Cassandra
- Experience using observability and logging tools such as Grafana, New Relic, or Elasticsearch
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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