Sr 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.

About the F5 Platform Security Team

The Platform Security team is responsible for the ensuring the products F5 builds are a secure as we can make them. We provide services and support to F5 development teams in all phases of the Secure Development Lifecycle – from design time security and threat analysis, to best development practices training, to security testing and certifications, to vulnerability response and management.

Position Summary

This position is responsible for the design, development and implementation of complete software components related to the security certifications features of the BIG-IP. Designs, develops and maintains high-quality code for complex security certification components. Requires little direct management to complete the majority of development tasks.

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Cutting-edge Development and troubleshooting: Engage in the development of edge-native applications and platform services using emerging technologies for F5’s BIG IP platform. Troubleshoot complex system issues related to BIG IP, including connectivity, routing, DNS, and other networking technologies 

• Ownership and Delivery: Troubleshoot complex system issues related to IPv6, including connectivity, routing, DNS, NAT64/DNS64, and other networking technologies 

•  Technology Exploration: Investigate various open-source and closed-source technologies, components, libraries, and tools, contributing to the construction of a highly available, scalable, and manageable system. 

• Design Patterns and Microservices: Apply understanding and exposure to design patterns and coding practices, especially in microservices architectures and API design, implementation, and management. 

• Independent Innovation: Independently investigate, present options, review, and implement completely new functionality. 

• Collaboration: Work closely with other development teams, product management, UX, and QA to define and implement new product offerings while ensuring continued functionality. 

• Code Reviews and Guidelines: Follow the best coding practices, and guidelines within the team. 

• Full Development Cycle: Ability to implement all phases of a development cycle for a software product, from understanding requirements to design, development, and deployment phases. 

• Geographically Distributed Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with geographically distributed teams. 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: 

• Distributed Systems Expertise: Knowledge and experience in highly distributed software systems, with the ability to understand nuances and solve problems related to scale, performance, and resiliency. 

• Programming Languages: Expertise with any combination of programming languages: C/C++, Golang, Python or any high-level proprietary or open-source language with strong programming constructs. 

• FIPS 140-3, Common Criteria: Collaborate with architects and business leaders to understand the requirements for providing FIPS-ready cryptography-based security services for F5's platform, design solutions, and implement them, including building and executing the test suites, tools – required for making systems and libraries ready for FIPS

• L3-L7 Networking – Hands-on experience working across the networking stack:  

• CICD Methodology: Strong understanding of modern CI/CD methodology and Git-based workflows. 

• Container Technologies: Experience in Docker technologies, including optimizing Docker images and managing Docker image lifecycle. Experience in orchestration systems like Kubernetes and container technologies like Docker is a plus. 

• Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 

• Interpersonal and Leadership Skills: Strong interpersonal, team-building, and mentoring skills. 

Environment: 

• Freedom and Learning: Embrace an environment that fosters freedom, 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 will feel at home from day one, contributing to a positive and supportive workplace culture. 

Qualifications

Typically requires a minimum of 9+ years of related experience.

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].