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.

Software Development Engineer -3

Position Summary:

Life at F5 is never dull. We are constantly identifying industry trends and disruptions, then innovating to get ahead of future customer needs—creating application services that help the world’s leading organizations deliver their critical business apps faster and with the highest levels of flexibility, security, performance, and quality.

We are looking for “Software Development Engineer -3” to design and implement easy-to-use features for BIG-IP product. BIG-IP offers the most comprehensive solution for security and traffic management for apps spanning on-premises and multi-cloud architectures. This position provides technical opportunities that can make a significant impact on how our customers use BIG-IP and manage highly secure and performant applications.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable applications using Java as the primary technology.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code following best practices and coding standards.
• Enhance existing applications built using JSP, Angular, PHP, SQL, and HTML & CSS.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and cross-functional teams to define technical requirements and deliver robust features.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.

• Drive development of complex UI features and ensure high performance across devices and browsers.

• Optimize rendering, responsiveness, and accessibility of web applications.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize application performance.
• Contribute to system design discussions, architecture improvements, and technical roadmap planning.
  • Write unit test, functional test and integration test automation
  • Mentor junior engineers and support knowledge-sharing within the team.
  • Ensure software quality by participating in testing, documentation, and deployment processes.
• Handle security vulnerability issues, customer issues & performance issues
  • Translate design mockups and business requirements into high-quality code.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Strong proficiency in Java
• Strong experience with JSP for server-side rendering.
• Working knowledge of Angular or other modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Solid SQL skills and experience working with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL).
• Fundamental understanding of PHP, HTML, CSS, and web technologies.
• Preferred to have reactjs knowledge.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with Web Performance APIs, Accessibility APIs, and Security best practices.
• Experience integrating front-end with RESTful APIs, and backend services.
• Good familiarity with REST services and data formats such as JSON, XML
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, test automation (Cypress).
• Expertise with Continuous Integration and Agile development methodology
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging abilities.
• Self-driven, proactive, and able to manage multiple tasks effectively.
• Ability to mentor team members and contribute to a positive engineering culture.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (or above, Graduate degree preferred) in computer science or equivalent professional experience with 5+ years.
• Passion for learning new technologies, and a track record of doing so.

• Ability to work flexible hours for better collaboration with international teams.

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.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

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.