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.

Position Summary

• F5 Inc. is actively seeking an exceptional Software Engineer III to play a pivotal role in our SRE/DevOps team for the groundbreaking F5XC Product.

Primary Responsibilities

• Distributed-Python-Apps: Ability to deploy, contribute and support to a highly distributed python based CDN framework (Flask, Celery, Apache Traffic Control, WebSockets).
• Easy-to-Use Automation: Continue to grow the infra-automation (k8s, fluxCD, Helm Charts, Kustomizations, python scripts) with a focus on ease of configuration
• Environment Stability using Observability: Create and continue to evolve existing Observability (metrics & alerts) and participate in regular monitoring of infrastructure for stability.
• Collaborative Engagement: Collaborate closely with application owners and SRE team members as part of roadmap execution and continuous improvement of existing systems.
• Scale & Resilient systems: Design & deploy systems/infra which is highly available and resilient for the configured failure domains.
• Perform oncall support function on a rotation basis.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Hands-on python programming is mandatory. Deep experience working with python HTTP servers (flask) and job frameworks (celery) is mandatory.
• SRE/Devops on Linux & Kubernetes: Demonstrate excellent, hands-on knowledge of deploying workloads and managing lifecyle on kubernetes, with practical experience on debugging issues.
• Coding Prowess: Exhibit hands-on expertise in Python and Golang.
• GipOps: Experience with helm charts/kustomizations and FluxCD gitOPs is a must. Knowledge of ArgoCD is a plus.
• CI/CD: Experience working with/designing functional CI/CD systems.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Prior experience in deploying workloads and managing lifecycle on any cloud provider (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Databases: Deploying databases like Postgres clusters, InfluxDB and Clickhouse is a must.
• Experience with Disaster Recovery and Migration is a plus.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 5+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3+ years and a Master’s degree.
• Excellent organizational agility and communication skills throughout the organization.

Environment

• Empowered Work Culture: Experience an environment that values autonomy, fostering a culture where creativity and ownership are encouraged.
• Continuous Learning: Benefit from the mentorship of experienced professionals with solid backgrounds across diverse domains, supporting your professional growth.

Team Cohesion: Join a collaborative and supportive team where you'll feel at home from day one, contributing to a positive and inspiring workplace.

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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 F5’s 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 F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits . 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 accommodations@f5.com .