Software Engineer III - Telemetry & Observability

F5 • San Jose, CA

19h • Hybrid

About The Position

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. Our Employees Are valued and empowered, collaborative and team oriented, innovative in their approach and passionate about their work. They are reliable, trustworthy, and open with a high level of integrity. We value diversity, are inclusive and are committed to a global mindset. The seniority of the position is flexible, and leveling will be adjusted based on your experience and expertise. Position Summary: F5’s solution, BIG-IP BNK/CNF, brings critical carrier-grade capabilities to a Kubernetes environment. It enables service providers, enterprise, and AI customers to create a bridge from their existing 4G/legacy enterprise networks to the AI enabled cloud-native 5G core network. BIG-IP BNK/CNF provides high performance traffic management, visibility, and security at container ingress (North/South) into the 5G core Kubernetes clusters. You will be working on building the crucial telemetry, observability, and analytics functionality for F5’s BNK/CNF product. You will work with a team that is smart, passionate and customer experience oriented. The ideal candidate is an energetic, hands-on, and creative problem solver!

Requirements

• Excellent coding skills in C or C++ or Go.
• Mastery of standard data structures and algorithms, run-time complexities, IPC, etc. is required.
• Must have background in networking technologies & protocols like IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, HTTP etc.
• Experience in complex Kubernetes orchestrated micro services is a must
• Experience building telemetry solutions with open source OTEL, Prometheus etc is needed
• Exceptional problem solving, analytical and trouble-shooting skills.
• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 year with a Master’s degree; or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building analytics dashboards for stats aggregation is a plus
• Good knowledge in working with observability data: logs, metrics, and traces.
• Experience with Linux, node storage, Kubernetes RBAC etc is desirable
• Experience with gitlab/github or other source code management is needed.
• Able to collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced high-performance environment
• Regularly demonstrates collaboration by promoting others’ ideas, working well within and other teams, influencing others, and making teams successful.
• Candidate must be passionate enjoy solving complex problems. This is a fast paced, innovative environment and requires candidate to grasp new technologies quickly. Often knowledge is self-taught as formal training in emerging technologies may not exist.
• Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communications.
• Regularly finds ways to communicate widely through discussions, white papers, publications, and other.
• Willingness and ability to write good functional specification and design documents.

Responsibilities

• Independently determines and develops approaches to solutions for assigned projects by identifying, resolving and mitigating risk and communicating to others
• Provides technical solutions to detail certain aspects of product design and ensures that resulting design specification fits into technical architectural framework.
• Performs analysis to define design requirements for modification to existing tools, utilities, system structures, environments and provide technical perspective for input into project scope and estimating activities
• Recommends and maintains technical design methodologies, processes and standards
• Provides technical guidance to junior level engineers
• Assist Tech Leads and Management with project scope
• Consistently meet commitments
• Assisting and driving customer solutions
• Participates in hiring and onboarding process
• Conducts presentations internally and externally

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level