Principal Software Engineer at F5 Networks, Inc in San Jose, California

Job Description:

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.

Life at F5 is never dull. We are constantly identifying industry trends and disruptions, then innovating to get ahead of future customer needs—creating application services that help the world’s leading organizations deliver their critical business apps faster and with the highest levels of flexibility, security, performance, and quality.

But our success isn’t driven solely by what we do. We also care deeply about how we do it. At F5, our culture is how we live, every single day. And it’s producing extraordinary results—not only for our customers, but also for our employees. We understand that your life is about more than just work, so we’re committed to a culture that supports your whole life.

Position Summary

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!

Join our team of forwarding thinking leaders as a Principal Software Engineer and own software projects to completion. You will determine through your experience and research the most effective designs for F5 offerings.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Recommend and maintain technical design methodologies, processes, and technologies.




• Identify and research new and emerging approaches and technologies, and open source projects.




• Research and define benchmarks for security, scale, performance, code and product quality.




• Ensure software and product architectures are developed in line with the vision and future direction of F5’s products by working with product, architecture, and development teams.




• Partners with management on driving product timelines; Participates on design projects.




• Solving complex bug scenarios, actively assisting DEV team to analyze and resolve various product issues.




• Participate actively in developing plans, incorporating feedback along with reviewing test plans submitted by other team members




• Collaborate with team members and technical leads




• Passionate about our solutions, in order to Inspire and guide team members.




• Be an Advocate for Quality.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Strong ability with L3/L4 networking especially as it pertains to cloud networking environments.




• Understand the value of resilient system design.




• Solid coding experience (Golang, Python, Bash, Perl)




• Strong background working in Agile environments and with Agile methodologies.




• Understanding of the differences between architecting network infrastructure and applications for the legacy enterprise datacenter versus the modern hybrid cloud/public cloud.




• Strong networking experience with application and Network protocols, especially HTTP/HTTPS , TCP ,UDP




• Attention to details




• Able to communicate ideas, make and influence decisions and inspire others




• 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.




• Highly strategic and analytical thinking.




• Ability to understand and educate others on the pros and cons of various technical design options.




• Uses design patterns to improve efficiency and scale development efforts.




• Natural inclination to explore, prototype, and self-teach.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 9 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 6 years; or equivalent experience.

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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 Yello/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 accommodations@f5.com.

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