Sr Software Development Engineer

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Position Summary

The F5 NGINX Business Unit is seeking a Sr Software Engineer based in India. As a software engineer, you will be an integral part of a development team delivering high-quality features for exciting next generation NGINX SaaS products. The role is focused on delivering loosely coupled software components and microservices integrated in both public & private cloud architectures; creating solutions to a wide variety of technical challenges; independently designing, implementing, and testing new functionality; and collaborating with peers and technical leads. You'll be expected to handle most development tasks independently, with minimal direct supervision.

Primary Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a globally distributed team to design, code, and test robust, scalable, loosely coupled components for SaaS applications hosted on public cloud platforms.
• Diagnose and resolve complex software challenges involving network, security, and web technologies. This includes troubleshooting problems with HTTP load balancers, API gateways (e.g., NGINX proxies), and related systems.
• Serve as source of technical expertise to a project team and as a mentor for junior staff members.
• Work cross functionally integrating, testing and debugging issues with existing system wide software.
• Take part in product support, bug triaging, and bug-fixing activities on a rotating schedule to ensure the SaaS service meets its SLA commitments.
• Consistently apply forward-thinking software design, implementation, and test principles.
• Participate in hiring and onboarding of new engineers.

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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.