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Job Description
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 (XC) platform designed to support largescale highperformance and highly available services across multicloud environments. The Control Plane Team is seeking an experienced Principal/Senior Principal Engineer with deep technical expertise in routing protocols networking fundamentals and distributed systems. You will work on the development and lifecycle of a multicloud platform primarily within AWS environments leveraging Kubernetes (K8s) for orchestration.
The ideal candidate will have significant experience in routing protocols (BGP iBGP OSPF etc. and networking fundamentals. Experience working with distributed systems Kubernetes and AWS environments is highly desirable. You will be responsible for designing and implementing scalable and resilient control and data plane solutions. Additionally your leadership experience and technical expertise will help guide the future direction of our product.
Key Responsibilities
- Leadcontrol path developmentfor theXC product line focusing onscalabilityandhigh availabilityin distributed cloud environments.
- Design and implementscalablehighperformance solutionsfor distributed cloud(XC).
- Technically lead major system components indistributed systems from design to implementation.
- Create and maintain functional specifications and design documents to clearly communicate design decisions and solutions.
- Proactively identify and resolve keytechnical challengesrelated toperformancesecurity andscalability.
- Continuously improve theperformanceandreliabilityof the platform ensuring it meetsoperational demands.
- Investigate and propose solutions tosecurity vulnerabilitieswithin the platform includingthirdparty integrations.
- Mentorjunior engineersand serve as a source oftechnical expertiseacross the team.
- Communicate effectively withinternal stakeholders presenting complextechnical conceptsto both technical and nontechnical audiences.
Qualifications
- 14 yearsof software engineering experience with10 yearsin designing and implementing largescaledistributed systems.
- Prior experience with cloud technology and networking routing platforms control plane Docker Kubernetes public cloud (Azure AWS) etc.
- Deep expertise inrouting protocol (BGP OSPF andIPSec routing and networking protocolsTCPUDPL4L7HTTPBGPIPSec is mandatory.
- Experience withcloud networking platformsandcommercial BGP routing solutions.
- Strong coding proficiency inC/Golang with a proven track record of leading complex software development efforts.
- Handson experience withDockerK8s andmicroservices architecturein cloud environments.
- Strongarchitectural skillsin designinghighly availablerealtime systemsin distributed environments.
- Proven experience driving complex SW development and test efforts in small and fast paced organizations with an understanding of the tradeoffs that must be made to ensure timeliness and quality.
- Excellentcommunicationcollaboration andleadership skills with the ability to lead and mentor teams effectively.
- Passion for learning new technologies and a track record of doing so.
Nice to have:
- Experience withRoute ReflectorsandBGP Confederationsfor managing complexBGP deploymentsin largescale environments.
- Understanding ofroute dampeningBGP path attributes andBGP synchronization techniques.
The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However the description may not be allinclusive and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.
Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5 or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5 or @myworkday.
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 .
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
