Mgr, Software Development Engineering

F5, Inc•Seattle, WA

31d

About The Position

This position manages the activities of systems development, applications development, test strategies and quality assurance functions for system enhancements and new products. Key responsibilities are to develop and manage people, provide technical leadership, lead project planning, facilitate communication, and offer product vision. Coordinates project timelines with Project and Development Managers, determines and obtains resources, assigns work, monitors progress and results, and provides technical leadership. This Manager is a champion for product quality within the department and is accountable for an assessment of product readiness and commitments on product delivery schedules. This is a first-level management position.

Requirements

Knowledge and expertise in software engineering methodologies
Knowledge in programming/scripting languages, such as C, C++, Java, Python
Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams, mentoring and developing direct reports
Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communications
Excellent analytic / troubleshooting and debugging skills
Strong networking fundamentals and experience dealing with different layers of the networking stack. Experience with network and web technologies such as TCP, UDP, IP, HTTP, L4-L7, DNS, etc.
SRE/DevOps on Linux & Kubernetes: Demonstrate excellent, hands-on knowledge of deploying workloads and managing lifecycle on Kubernetes, with practical experience debugging issues
Experience in Cloud based product development
Knowledge of microservices architecture and API design and development best practices
Working knowledge of development and deployment across multiple cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, VMWare and OpenStack
Knowledge or experience with Docker containers and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes
Able to collaborate and thrive in a dynamic environment
Passion, with corresponding track record, for learning new technologies
Proven ability to deliver products with highest quality, on time and within budget
Extensive experience with bug tracking and triage systems
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
On-call Experience in managing everyday OPs for production environments
Experience in production alerts management and using dashboards to debug issues
Duties may require being on call periodically or working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends).â¯ Duties may require the ability to travel via automobile or airplane, approximately 10% of the time spent traveling
B.S. Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or other technical degree
7+ years software development experience
0-3 years leading or managing a development team

Nice To Haves

Experience programming in Linux networking and OS internals
Agile based software development methodologies such as Kanban, Scrum
Experience with helm charts/customizations and gitops tools like ArgoCD/FluxCD.
Experience with Disaster Recovery and Migration is a plus

Responsibilities

Employee management including but not limited to sourcing, interviewing and hiring candidates for open positions,â¯onboarding, establishing goals, assigning or delegating work, providing on-the-job training, giving guidance to staff, conducting performance evaluations, approving paid time-off (PTO), developing performance improvement plans, and taking disciplinary action
Recommends changes to policies and establishes procedures that affect immediate organization(s).
Act as an advisor to subordinate(s) to meet schedules and/or resolve technical problems
Ensures milestones are being met; monitor, track and make visible
Develops and administers schedules, performance requirements; provides input into budgeting.
May meet with customers to communicate and review product features
May communicates product roadmaps and project status to staff, senior management, and other product teams.
Evaluates and reviews new technologies on their applicability to product architecture and design
Prioritizes product features resulting in the correct delivery of needed functionality
Coordinates with development service groups resulting in greater communication and higher probability of on time delivery of products
Responsible for upholding F5's Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies
Work cross functionally integrating, testing and debugging issues with existing system wide software
Collaborate with team members and technical leads
Build tools and infrastructure to improve F5's components and features
Performs other related duties as assigned

Benefits

You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5's benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

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