Software Engineer II

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.

At F5, we are building a distributed cloud services platform (XC) to support large-scale, high-performance, and highly available services across multi-cloud environments. The Control Plane Team at F5 is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer with strong technical knowledge of networking fundamentals, microservice architecture, and distributed systems—particularly in AWS environments with Kubernetes orchestration.

You will contribute to the development and lifecycle of a multi-cloud distributed platform, primarily within AWS, leveraging Kubernetes (K8s) for orchestration.

You will work with a team of experts in design and development. As a Software Engineer 2 , you will implement stable and high-performance applications. You’ll evaluate various open-source and commercial technologies, components, libraries, and tools to help build a highly available, scalable, and manageable system.

Key Responsibilities

• Write hands-on code in multiple languages with a focus on performance, scalability, maintainability, and flexibility.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for end-to-end feature development, taking ownership and accountability.
• Develop and maintain applications using Go and C++, emphasizing scalability and high availability in distributed cloud environments.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following industry best practices and coding standards.
• Take ownership of software components, ensuring the delivery of complete solutions that meet functional, scalability, performance, and manageability requirements.
• Participate in defining new software architectures, products, and solutions.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Qualifications

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.