Software Development Engineer III, Distributed Cloud

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Position Summary   

Join a revolutionary team of Distributed Cloud Data platform, Analytics, Cloud service specialists to build core data system, analytics, telemetry, AI/ Generative AI powered services at scale in the growing field of multi-cloud SaaS (Software as a Service), Security and Multi Cloud Networking solutions.  

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Data platform and service team to build core data platforms and data analytics pipeline in the F5 Distributed Cloud Platform Group.  

As a critical member of the Distributed Cloud Data platform team, you will be responsible for leading the design, deployment, automation and operations of the data systems and services across hybrid Cloud for the new landscape of F5 SaaS products.   

Responsibilities   

• Build F5 Distributed Cloud data system and innovate in next Gen data and analytics platform 

• Accelerate the deployment, automation and operations of the data platform across on Prem and Cloud 

• Design and manage network, infrastructure and access to the data system and analytics pipeline 

• Implement observability strategies and performance monitoring of system 

• Work closely with developer, product, marketing, operation, platform, and customer support team to create innovative solution for Cloud and SaaS product delivery    

Required Qualifications   

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience (5+ years).  

• Extensive hands-on operation experience in data platform and SaaS products    

• Extensive hands-on experience in public Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and Managed Services  

• Proficiency in data/ stream processing (e.g., Kafka, Pubsub, Dataflow,Vector, Spark, Flink), database and data warehouse (e.g., Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, StarRocks, Big Query), analytics and AI platform (e.g. Databricks, Snowflake) 

• Expertise in streaming, warehouse/data lake performance tuning, and query optimization  

• Proficiency in deployment and automation of data system, analytics pipeline across on Prem and Cloud 

• Expertise in data model, schema registration and evolution, and event-driven architectures, compliance in data pipelines (e.g. GDPR, PII masking, encryption)  

• Experience with logs, metrics, telemetry, Prometheus, Open Telemetry, distributed tracing  

• Proficiency in terraform and managing workloads via IaC 

• Proficiency in deploying Models (CRDs), Controllers and/or Operators  

• Proficiency in container and orchestration technologies, Kubernetes and Microservice deployment 

• Experience with automation and cloud Infra, source control, modern CI/CD(ArgoCD), GitOps  

• Experience with data system observability, monitoring, alerting, quality and performance   

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and end-to-end debugging skills in data systems and pipelines with extensive knowledge from network, routing, Infra, underlay to VPN, DNS, and Load Balancer technologies. 

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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