Software Development Engineer III

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The seniority of the position is flexible, and leveling will be adjusted based on your experience and expertise.

Position Summary:
F5’s solution, BIG-IP BNK/CNF, brings critical carrier-grade capabilities to a Kubernetes environment. It enables service providers, enterprise, and AI customers to create a bridge from their existing 4G/legacy enterprise networks to the AI enabled cloud-native 5G core network. BIG-IP BNK/CNF provides high performance traffic management, visibility, and security at container ingress (North/South) into the 5G core Kubernetes clusters. You will be working on building the crucial telemetry, observability, and analytics functionality for F5’s BNK/CNF product. You will work with a team that is smart, passionate and customer experience oriented. The ideal candidate is an energetic, hands-on, and creative problem solver!

Primary Responsibilities:
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

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
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 networking, storage, security solutions in Public Cloud 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 working with S3 and EC2 or Google Cloud Storage (GCS) and Google Compute Engine (GCE) is a plus
Good knowledge in various CNI and routing in public cloud infrastructure is desirable
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.

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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 accommodations@f5.com.