Engineer III, Software

Posted:
3/17/2025, 5:00:00 PM

Location(s):
County Cork, Ireland ⋅ Cork, County Cork, Ireland

Experience Level(s):
Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
DevOps & Infrastructure ⋅ Software Engineering

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.

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!

Are you looking to be an integral part of a development team delivering high-quality features for exciting next-generation products? Do you want to contribute to the cutting-edge, technology products we are known for worldwide? If so, we'd love to hear from you! The F5 NGINX Business Unit is searching for a Software Engineer to join us in Cork, Ireland.

This role is focused on creating solutions to a wide variety of technical challenges with varying scopes & complexities, while independently designing, implementing, and testing new functionality as you collaborate with your peers and technical leads.

In this role, you will be developing Cloud Native products to control and secure some of the leading applications and websites in the world, using Kubernetes, along with virtualization and containerization technologies, to support NGINX products designed for the next generation (and beyond) of cloud and container environments.

Responsibilities:

  • Work closely with your team to design, code, and test robust, scalable, loosely coupled components which integrate into containerized environments.
  • Consistently apply forward-thinking software design, implementation, and test principles.
  • Focus efforts to optimize on-time delivery of features and fixes with high quality.
  • Work in an agile environment that enables development teams to iterate rapidly.

Qualifications:

  • Outstanding coding abilities with languages like Go and Python.
  • Strong experience with container technologies using Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Detailed understanding of web technologies (e.g., HTTP, REST, JSON).
  • Strong grasp of cloud technologies (both public and private, such as AWS, Azure, or VMware vSphere).
  • Good knowledge of Linux services, runtime, and scripting.
  • Superlative analytical as well as troubleshooting skills.
  • A dynamic collaborator who thrives in a diverse, geographically distributed team.
  • Strong teamwork abilities which include diplomacy, and promotion of sound ideas & concepts, paired with the desire to help others grow their skills.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Bachelor’s or advanced degree; and/or equivalent work experience.
  • 4+ years of experience in relevant roles.

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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 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.

F5

Website: https://f5.com/

Headquarter Location: Seattle, Washington, United States

Employee Count: 5001-10000

Year Founded: 1996

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Equity

Industries: Consumer Electronics ⋅ SaaS ⋅ Security ⋅ Virtualization