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

Career opportunity. Help expand F5 to complete our worldwide reach.

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 (SRs) 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 Product Engineering. 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.

Position Summary

This position is responsible for the identification, evaluation, and solution of complex software issues in OpenShift/OKD, which is an open-source container application platform based on the Kubernetes container cluster manager for enterprise application development and deployment, and issues generic to F5 technologies. Must also be able to design, develop, and maintain high-quality code for product components. Perform as an individual contributor and collaborate with peers under the direction of technical leads on assigned project teams.

Primary Responsibilities

Evaluate and solve software failures
Improve the existing functionality
Work cross-functionally integrating, testing and 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, Skills and Abilities

Essential:

Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms
Strong knowledge in any of the following languages: C, C++, Go
Excellent analytic / troubleshooting and debugging skills
Experience in software design and development
Experience with Docker/OpenShift/Kubernetes

Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communications

Nice-to-have:

Experience with network and web technologies such as TCP, UDP, IP, HTTP, L4-L7, DNS and such
Experience programming in Linux networking and OS internals

Qualifications

Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 1 year of experience; or equivalent work 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).

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