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.

About the Team

F5 Networks sits between the Internet and some of the largest companies on Earth. We keep their applications running fast, safe, and efficiently. F5’s hardware and software products are highly configurable and blazingly fast. The Rapid Development Team (RDT) is the customer facing side of F5 Product Engineering and has the charter to keep our existing clientele happy. RDT accomplishes this through two major arenas – diagnosing and resolving the hardest customer issues using a dedicated group of elite software engineers who thrive on the hunt. Successful RDT developers solve difficult unique problems, can multi-task efficiently, communicate calmly, and enjoy playing the hero.  

RDT has a unique vantage point within F5. Our Software Engineers understand the product in its entirety – not only how the features work but how they work together. This makes RDT engineers highly valued at F5. Some of the best engineers at F5 work for or have worked for RDT.

This positionis responsible forthe identification, evaluation, and solution of complex software issues. Must also be able to design, develop, andmaintainhigh-quality code for product components. Perform as an individual contributor and collaborate with peers under the direction of technical leads on assigned project teams. Requires little direct management to complete most of the development tasks.

Primary Responsibilities 

• Evaluate and solve software failures

• Improve the existing functionality

• Work cross functionally integrating,testingand debugging issues with existing system wide software

• Collaborate with team members and technical leads

• Build tools and infrastructure to improve F5’s components and features

• Perform other related duties as assigned

Knowledge,Skillsand Abilities 

Essential:

• Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms

• Strongexpertisein Layer 2/3forwardinglogic and core networking protocols, including theimplementationand troubleshooting of routing (BGP, OSPF) and complex encapsulation/tunneling schemas (VXLAN, MPLS, IKE, GRE).

• Experience with network and web technologies such asTCP, UDP, IP, HTTP, L4-L7, DNSand such

• Hands-on programming experience in any one ofC, C++ or Go

• Excellent analytic /troubleshootingand debugging skills

• Experience programming inLinux networkingandOS internals

• Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communications

• Strongexpertisein performing analysis of the data path within Kubernetes environments. Candidates must be proficient in isolating performance bottlenecks, diagnosing intermittent packet drops, and resolving regressions within the container networking stack

• Proven ability to reproduce complex customer network topologies to simulate andvalidatehigh-throughput workloads.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with one or more scripting language such as Python, shell script, JavaScript and/or node.js 

• Experience in high performance data planeproxiessuch asEnvoy,HAProxyor Nginx.

• Experience with DPDK oreBPFframeworks.

• Experience in production alerts management and using dashboards to debug issues.

• Expertisein utilizing Kibana, Grafana, and Loki to analyze system telemetry and high-cardinality data

• Skilled in constructing complex queries (LogQL, Lucene, KQL) to build specialized dashboards

Qualifications

Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with abachelor'sdegree; or 3 years and amaster'sdegree; or a PhD with 1 year of experience; or equivalent work experience.

Environment

• Empowered Work Culture:Experience an environment that values autonomy, fostering a culture where creativity and ownership are encouraged.

• Continuous Learning:Benefit from the mentorship of experienced professionals with solid backgrounds across diverse domains, supporting your professional growth.

• Team Cohesion:Join a collaborative and supportive team where you'llfeel at home from day one, contributing to a positive and inspiring workplace.

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.

The annual base pay for this position is: $137,600.00 - $206,400.00

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 accommodations@f5.com