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 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 an Engineer III who is well versed with 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 para-virtualized interfaces SR-IOV virtual functions and F5s FPGAs.
Primary Responsibilities :
Design and implement test automations for network drivers.
Evaluate network driver features and performance.
Set up and maintain hardware resources used for CI / CD pipeline automation.
Document software designs via functional specifications and other design documents.
Conduct presentations internally and externally.
Participate in hiring and onboarding process.
Collaborate with team members and technical leads.
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 and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.
Required :
Must have test development experience using Python / Bash.
Must have prior work experience with C programming.
3 years test / programming experience.
Must have experience and knowledge of networking protocols architecture and technologies.
Excellent analytic / troubleshooting and debugging skills.
Ability to manage ambiguity in work.
Ability to present ideas verbally and in-writing with clarity and precision.
Preferred :
Well-versed in containerization solutions (like Kubernetes).
Well-versed in microservices architecture.
Experience with ansible and / or terraform.
Experience with GitLab and / or similar repository solutions.
Qualifications
Typically requires a minimum of 3 years of related experience with a bachelors degree; or 2-3 years and a masters degree; or a PhD without experience; or equivalent work experience.
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.
The annual base pay for this position is : $137600.00 - $206400.00
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.
Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with or @ ) .
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 .
Key Skills
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Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience : years
Vacancy : 1
Monthly Salary Salary : 137600 - 206400
Engineer Iii • Seattle, Oregon, USA