Software Development Engineer II

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. Job Description: Software Engineer II - Platform About the Position: F5 is looking for Software Engineer II with experience in high scale distributed systems. You will participate in the design and implementation of F5 XC Edge Computing platform that is used to deploy global, scalable and secure applications. Your work includes, but not limited to, Research, design and build highly reliable, available and scalable platforms, API definition, implementation, deployment, operational management, and debugging. Responsibilities: Deliver solutions that will help create, deploy and manage the service components of the XC platform Investigate various open source and close source technologies, components, libraries, tools etc. and help build a highly available, highly scalable and easily manageable system Take ownership of software components and deliver a complete product satisfying functional, scale, performance and manageability requirements. Hands-on coding in multiple languages while considering performance, scalability, maintainability, and flexibility Understanding and exposure to design patterns and coding practices especially as applied to microservices architectures and API design, implementation and management Experience in Cloud native providers like MS Azure or AWS or Google Cloud or any major Cloud vendors in the market and their services Independently investigate, present options, review and implement completely new functionality You will work closely with other development teams, product management, UX, and QA to define and implement a new product offering while ensuring continued functionality. Perform code reviews, set coding practices and guidelines within the team Ability to implement all phases of a development cycle for a software product from understanding requirements, going through design, development and deploy phases Work with geographically distributed teams Minimum Qualifications: Knowledge and experience in highly distributed software systems, ability to understand the nuances and solve problems related to scale, performance and resiliency of such a system Experience in programming languages: Golang, Python any objected oriented high level proprietary or open source language with strong programming constructs. Good understanding of programming fundamentals & their application to highly scalable web-based systems Experience in developing polyglot software using service definition language and framework like gRPC, Thrift, Google Protocol Buffers, OpenAPI etc. Must have hands on SQL or No SQL technologies. Experience working on CICD methodology and Git based workflow Experience in Docker technologies including experience in optimizing Docker image and managing Docker image lifecycle. Experience in orchestration systems like Kubernetes and container technologies like Docker, rkt is a plus Excellent written and verbal communication skills Strong interpersonal, team building, and mentoring skills BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 4+ years of software development experience 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.