Software Development 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.

Are you passionate about working with smart people on challenging problems in an environment that values hard work, integrity, and teamwork?  F5 Inc. a Market leader in Application Delivery Controllers and Security platforms is hiring for its Centre of Excellence office in Hyderabad, India.  Join our team of super smart engineers working in a fun, fast-paced, and highly technical environment where your dreams can become reality.

You will be tasked with our most challenging problems, diagnosing, and troubleshooting complex systems issues. You will be working on designing, developing and testing components of highly scalable, distributed and high performing carrier grade software solutions that ensure private, secure communications. Working very closely with architects, leads, cross-functional teams and other stakeholders you will strengthen F5’s technology offerings.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work on high performance network applications
• Design, implement and test components in a multitude of languages (Golang, Python).
• Work closely with engineering, product, marketing, and customer support teams to engineer end-to-end solutions.
• Improve processes, tooling, and engineering standards.
• Have innovative problem-solving skills.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Solid knowledge and experience with test methodologies used in software development.
• Good understanding basic networking (routing/switching) concepts, network security, HTTP Load balancers etc
• Hands on experience in languages such as Golang, Python and Shell scripts etc.
• Good experience in Docker, Kubernetes
• Design and develop services using Golang
• Build and manage cloud-native applications on Kubernetes
• Develop and maintain REST/gRPC APIs
• Integrate AI Copilot solutions (e.g., code assistants, LLM APIs, automation bots) into automation workflows
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices
• Solid analytic/trouble-shooting skills.
• Successfully manages ambiguity with limited direction.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal, team building, and mentoring skills.
• Extensive knowledge of product life cycle.

Qualifications:

• Graduate/Post-graduate degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 2+ years of experience in Networking and test automation.

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 [email protected].