Sr Principal Software Development Engineer
at F5
Posted 9 hours ago
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- City
- Bengaluru
- Country
- India
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Lead and design automation for testing high-scale distributed systems, collaborating with Architects, SREs, and development teams to vet and validate test automation for F5's edge computing platform. Drive feature delivery, test planning, reviews, and automation across releases. Own coverage of performance, scalability, and security aspects, mentor team members, and guide regression testing.
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
This position is responsible for building expertise in designing automation solutions to test high-scale distributed systems. You will make a meaningful impact by collaborating with Architects, SRE and application development teams to vet and validate test automation for our edge computing platform that is used to deploy global, scalable and secure applications
Primary Responsibilities
Technically lead the Engineering team and drive feature deliveries
Going through the PRDs, driving test plan, reviews, feature execution and automation.
Coverage on Performance and Scaling aspects of the product.
Coverage on Solution aspects of the service.
Feature ownership and assisting the support team on customer issues.
Contributing and leading the technical execution across releases.
Driving regression runs and analysis of delivered features
Demonstrate strong mentoring abilities to guide and support team members
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.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Experience in designing automation software from the ground up, choosing the right infrastructure components, evaluating both open source and closed source software.
Strong working knowledge of testing fundamentals.
Hands on experience in languages such as Golang, Python, Perl, Shell scripts etc.
Good understanding of CDN topology(caching, purge, compression, proxy, HTTP request / response headers)
Good understanding of Virtualization technologies like KVM, Docker.
Good understanding of computer networking (routing/switching) concepts, network security, HTTP Load balancers, proxies like Envoy/Nginx etc.
Good understanding of L4/L7 protocols like TCP / UDP / TLS / DNS / HTTP
Good understanding of Web/App security technologies like WAF, API security, L7 DDoS etc.
Working knowledge of Cloud orchestration systems such as Openstack/Kubernetes.
Experience working on well-known clouds like AWS/Azure/GCP would be a plus.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Strong interpersonal, team building, and mentoring skills.
Qualifications
Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s or a Master’s degree
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.
