Engineer II- Software

This position is responsible for the identification, evaluation, and solution of complex software issues. Must also be able to design, develop, and maintain high-quality code for product components. Perform as an individual contributor and collaborate with peers under the direction of technical leads on assigned project teams. Requires little direct management to complete most of the development tasks.

Primary Responsibilities 

• Evaluate and solve software failures
• Improve the existing functionality
• Work cross functionally integrating, testing and debugging issues with existing system wide software
• Collaborate with team members and technical leads
• Build tools and infrastructure to improve F5’s components and features
• Perform other related duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities 

Essential:

• Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Excellent analytic / trouble-shooting and debugging skills
• Experience with Docker/OpenShift/Kubernetes
• Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communications
• Hands-on programming experience in any one language python,golang + shell scripting.
• Hands-on terraform expertise.
• Strong networking fundamentals and experience dealing with different layers of the networking stack. Experience with network and web technologies such as TCP, UDP, IP, HTTP, L4-L7, DNS and such
• SRE/Devops on Linux & Kubernetes: Demonstrate excellent, hands-on knowledge of deploying workloads and managing lifecyle on kubernetes, with practical experience on debugging issues.
• On-call Experience in managing everyday OPs for production environments. Experience in production alerts management and using dashboards to debug issues.
• 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)

Nice-to-have:

• Experience programming in Linux networking and OS internals
• Agile based software development methodologies such as Kanban, Scrum
• GipOps: Experience with helm charts/customizations and gitops tools like ArgoCD/FluxCD.
• Experience in upgrading workloads for SaaS Services without downtime.
• Experience with Disaster Recovery and Migration is a plus

Qualifications

Typically requires a minimum of 3 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 2 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 1 year of experience; or equivalent work experience.