Sr. Platform Engineer (Device Drivers)

F5•San Jose, CA

15d•$166,625 - $249,937•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. Position Summary: This position is responsible for the design, development, and implementation of hardware-assisted device drivers on new hardware platforms (chassis and appliance). This role researches, investigates, and defines new areas of technology to enhance existing products or new product directions; implements (codes and tests) to a defined set of requirements; documents software designs via functional specifications and other design documents; evaluates the performance of products; tunes and re-evaluates the design and implementation of current source code; and diagnoses, documents, and resolves product issues found in QA and in the field. Attractions of the Job: Opportunity to work on industry leading-edge technology Opportunity to work with architects in defining next-generation products

Requirements

8+ years’ experience in the development of computer software in areas relevant to F5 product line
BS/BA in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience.
Strong knowledge and extensive experience with relevant platform technologies.
Knowledge of Cryptography, OpenSSL, SSL accelerators and public key infrastructure(PKI) are essential.
Experience in developing the crypto device driver in Linux system.
Experience in bringing up a crypto accelerator chip in a platform.
Strong debugging and profiling skills especially in distributed / multithreaded environment.
Strong multi-threaded programming skills.
Proficiency in C/C++ programming languages with strong knowledge of data structures, run time complexities, IPC, RPC
Must have strong L2/L3 networking experience.
Good understanding of protocols such as TCP, UDP, HTTP, SNMP
Knowledge and expertise in software engineering methodologies and effective unit testing.
Excellent analytic and trouble-shooting skills.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Ability to work with and support several different engineers (HW and SW) locally and remotely.
Ability to estimate work and deliver tested and working software on time.
Able to collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced high-performance environment.
Demonstrated leadership role within project team.
Extensive knowledge of product life cycle.
Must be a Subject Matter Expert in multiple skill areas.
Self-starter with the ability to learn quickly in a fast paced environment.

Nice To Haves

Linux Kernel and FPGA driver development a plus
Experience with Perforce, Github and scripting language is plus.

Responsibilities

Independently determines and develops approaches to solutions for assigned projects by identifying, resolving and mitigating risk and communicating to stakeholders
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 input into project scope and estimating activities
Recommends and maintains technical design methodologies, processes and standards
Provides technical guidance to lower level engineers
Assist Principal Engineers and Management with project scope
Consistently meet commitments
Assisting and driving customer solutions
Participates in hiring and onboarding process
Conducts presentations internally and externally
Responsible for upholding F5’s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.
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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