Software Development Engineer III

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.

Why do you want to join our team?

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 support.

F5 has innovated a consistent, cloud-native environment that can be deployed across multiple public clouds and edge sites — a distributed cloud platform. Within this SaaS-based offering, F5 integrates a broad range of services that have normally been siloed across many point products and network or cloud providers. The solution is designed to provide a single way to view security, operations and management components.

About the position:

F5 Bot Defense is the world leader in anti-automation and bot defense for web and mobile applications. You will be solving unique and meaningful problems in all aspects of architecting, deployment, monitoring, and operationalization for F5 Bot Defense products and services This will help accomplish highly scalable, easy to operate, and robust bot defense analytics solutions. You will work with proactive, innovative, and hands-on team members to deliver high impact products critical to primary business functions. We would love for you to come to work with us 

Responsibilities:  

• Design and develop features of F5 Distribute Cloud Bot Defense.
• Improve performance, test coverage, and design of existing codebase.
• Work closely with other engineering, product, and customer support teams for end-to-end solutions.

Qualifications:  

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 3 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD without experience; or equivalent work experience in computer science or related field.
• Proficient in Python, Go, and/or Java. 
• Rich experience in web service and REST API design and implementation.
• Proficient in micro-service design and implementation experience.
• Experience with large scale databases and queueing services.
• Experience in public cloud platforms: GCP or AWS.
• Good frontend knowledge and experience with Angular/NgRx or React/Redux.
• Good communication skills and good collaboration skills.

Desired Qualifications: 

• Proficient in unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience with Protocol Buffers implementation.
• Experience with designing and developing security and data analytics product.
• Experience with CI/CD tools like GitLab or similar.
• Familiar with Git and infra tools like ArgoCD, Helm, etc. 

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