Software Development Engineer III

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 are building a distributed cloud services platform (XC) to support large-scale, high-performance, and highly available services across multi-cloud environments. The Control Plane Team at F5 is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer with strong technical knowledge of networking fundamentals, microservice architecture, and distributed systems—particularly in AWS environments with Kubernetes orchestration. You will contribute to the development and lifecycle of a multi-cloud distributed platform, primarily within AWS, leveraging Kubernetes (K8s) for orchestration. You will work with a team of experts in design and development. As a Software Development Engineer 3 , you will implement stable and high-performance applications. You’ll evaluate various open-source and commercial technologies, components, libraries, and tools to help build a highly available, scalable, and manageable system. Key Responsibilities

- Take ownership of software components, ensuring the delivery of complete solutions that meet functional, scalability, performance, and manageability requirements.

- Write hands-on code in multiple languages with a focus on performance, scalability, maintainability, and flexibility.

- Develop and maintain applications using Go and C++, emphasizing scalability and high availability in distributed cloud environments.

- Deploy workloads and manage their lifecycle on cloud providers, especially AWS and GCP.

- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following industry best practices and coding standards.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams for end-to-end feature development, taking ownership and accountability.

- Investigate and resolve test pipeline failures in GitLab CI/CD environments.

- Participate in defining new software architectures, products, and solutions.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

- Proven experience with cloud technologies, especially AWS and Kubernetes, and with deploying scalable, distributed systems with a strong focus on performance and security.

- Solid understanding of API-driven product development.

- Proficiency in Go, C++ with a strong track record of contributing to complex software development projects.

- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and microservices architecture in cloud environments.

- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and debugging skills.

Qualifications

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

Nice to Have

- Experience working on metrics collection, observability frameworks, or telemetry pipelines.

- Background in building systems with strong monitoring, alerting, and tracing capabilities (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Telemetry).

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 .