Principal Software Engineer Network Drivers

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Position Summary

F5 sits between the Internet and some of the largest companies on Earth. We keep their applications running fast safe and efficiently. Our hardware and software products are highly configurable and blazingly fast. The Drivers team at F5 is looking for a Principal Software Engineer who is well versed with designing developing and testing network drivers for a scalable distributedand carrier grade software solution. This team owns the low-level network drivers for high performance packet processing in the BIG-IPs data-plane. BIG-IP is F5s flagship Application Delivery Controller. The data-plane pod either runs inside a virtual machine or directly in a customers native Kubernetes deployment. The network drivers developed by this team are used for a variety of paravirtualized interfaces SR-IOV virtual functions and F5s FPGAs.

Primary Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical expert for network driver design and architecture.

• Drive analysis of requirements.

• Assist manager and architect with project estimates.

• Liaise with cross-functional teams to ensure that project is delivered in its entirety.

• Act as a mentor for junior members of the team

• Design and implement network drivers and test automation for them.

• Research investigate and define new areas of technology to enhance existing products or identify new product directions.

• Conduct presentations internally and externally.

• Participate in hiring and onboarding process.

• Uphold F5s Business Code of Ethics.
  

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. Responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

Required:

• Must have a strong C development background.

• Must have experience and knowledge of networking protocols architecture and technologies.

• Experience with Linux user space and kernel space driver development.

• 8 years programming experience.

• Excellent analytical and debugging skills.

• Ability to manage ambiguity in work.

• Ability to present ideas verbally and in-writing with clarity and precision.

• A minimum of 8 years of related work experience with a Bachelors degree; or 6-8 years work experience and a Masters degree; or a PhD with 5 years work experience.

Preferred:

• Experience with DPDKs network PMDs.

• Exposure to containerization solutions (like Kubernetes) and Microservices Architecture.

• Well-versed in GitLab and/or similar repository solution.

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 accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodation in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting .

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.

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge skills experience geographic locations and market conditions as well as to reflect F5s differing products industries and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

You may also be offered incentive compensation bonus restricted stock units and benefits. More details about F5s benefits can be found at the following link: F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

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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 .