Senior Software Engineer

About the job

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.

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.

The Lead Software Engineer is key in building enterprise applications for F5 Engineering and Operations teams.

The Lead builds data-driven solutions that empower cross teams to make better and faster decisions.  The position requires a hands-on, well-rounded technical person who is passionate about building enterprise applications and fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and innovation. The ideal candidate delivers secure, scalable, and reliable solutions while mentoring others and raising the engineering bar.

We are seeking a senior technical leader who thrives in hands-on engineering and is passionate about developing others. The role is ideal for someone who wants to stay close to the code while growing into an Engineering Management role as the team scales.

Responsibilities / What you will do

- Architect, build, and lead development of scalable and secure back end and front-end systems

- Promote engineering excellence and foster continuous improvement

- Develop and implement automated testing strategies to improve efficiency

- Implement and drive best coding practices and design patterns.

- Develop and maintain quality gates for continuous integration and continuous deployment

- Mentor junior engineers.

Qualifications, what you bring

- Bachelors or Master’s degree in computer science engineering or equivalent and 8+ years of professional software engineering experience degree in computer science engineering or equivalent and 10+ years of professional software engineering experience

- 2+ years in technical leadership or Engineering Management Role

- Hands on experience in developing intelligence analytics solutions that are cloud native.

- Experience with Go, Python, Java, or similar technologies.

- Strong background with designing backend SQL/ NoSQL databases and performance tuning.

- Expertise building data warehouse analytics solutions.

- Familiarity with Front end technologies like React.

- Familiarity with Machine Learning models and AI techniques.

- Familiarity with System observability and monitoring.

- Hands on experience with Docker and Kubernetes as well as developing applications using microservice architecture with Cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.

- Excellent communication skills and leadership skills with a passion for growing and empowering engineers. Ability to work cross functionally.

- Ability to guide team members on technical aspects.

Preferred

- Experience with PromQL, Tableau, Grafana.

- Experience with Machine learning models and AI techniques for improved decision making.

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 accommodations@f5.com .