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Position Summary

This position is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining of high-performance traffic generation tools. Designs, codes, tests, and delivers new/modified functionality. 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 development tasks.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design and implement major components of internal high-performance traffic generation tools

• Research, investigate, and define new areas of technology to enhance existing offerings or new product directions

• Evaluate the performance of products; tune and re-evaluate the design and implementation of current source code

• Document software designs via functional specifications and other design documents

• Conduct presentations internal and external

• May participate in hiring and onboarding process

• Collaborate with team members and technical leads

• Responsible for upholding F5’s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.

• Performs other related duties as assigned.

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.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Good experience and knowledge of Linux networking.

• Strong understanding of networking protocols, architecture, and technologies (HTTP(S), TCP/IP, ...).

• 3+ years of programming experience (preferably with C, Golang, Lua)

• Other key skills preferred include knowledge and usage of Git, DPDK, and OpenSSL

• Excellent analytic / troubleshooting and debugging skills

• Successfully manage ambiguity in work.

• Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communications

• Able to collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced, high-performance environment

• Demonstrates emerging leadership qualities. Serves as a de facto lead in small group interaction.

• Can design and implement new functionality in multiple feature areas while developing subject matter expertise in at least one.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a closely related field

• 3+ years of programming experience in at least one of these languages (C, Go)

• Programming experience in Linux network programming

• Proficiency in Linux OS environment

• Knowledge of TCP/IP stack of protocols

• Knowledge and experience with IP networking (including routing and switching) is a plus

• Knowledge with Docker, Kubernetes or OpenShift is a plus

• Familiarity with cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud

• Knowledge of CI/CD and project management tools (e.g., Git, Gitlab, Jira, Bugzilla, etc) is preferred

F5 Networks, 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.

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 [email protected].