Sr Engineer, Software
Volterra
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 everyone can thrive.
Position Summary
We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineer to help design and implement a variety of stream and data processing features for the F5 Distributed Cloud Platform, starting with its' Global Log Receiver (GLR). GLR is the backbone of our customer's compliance needs. This is an opportunity to design, build, and support a component of a SaaS platform. The team also supports a variety of infrastructure that supports GLR, such as Apache Kafka.
The team you are on has experience running data platforms at large scale. You will also have a role in the design and implementation of systems that will efficiently process and store hundreds of thousands of messages per second.
Primary Responsibilities
Leads development of code and integration of complex components into a fully functional system, including leading the process of documenting and maintaining architecture, requirements, algorithms, interfaces, and designs.
Drives ongoing efficiency and reliability improvements through design and automation (availability, performance, scaling, monitoring, and capacity)
Partners with Product Managers and other Engineers to discuss and define requirements and acceptance criteria; identifies and proposes process improvements to enhance performance and customer satisfaction.
Guides and mentors other engineers to deliver well-tested, observable, documented, efficient, scalable, and resilient solutions.
Represents the team in cross organizational Engineering meetings as a recognized Subject Matter Expert for one or more technical topics.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
5 years of coding experience with Golang
Familiarity and experience operating publish and subscribe systems such as Apache Kafka
Direct experience running a customer-facing service in production
Understanding of a microservices-based architecture/deployment, using Kubernetes or other deployment methodology
Excellent problem-solving skills, particularly debugging complex distributed systems in a variety of languages
Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communications
Qualifications
Typically, requires at least 8+ years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree, 6+ year and a master’s degree, or a PhD with 4+ year of experience or equivalent experience.
Excellent organizational agility and communication skills throughout the organization.
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 will feel at home from day one, contributing to a positive and inspiring workplace.
F5 Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the 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.
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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.