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. They value diversity, are inclusive and are committed to a global mindset.

Position Summary

F5 Networks is simplifying management of F5 technologies for our customers. We are providing solutions to problems around configuration management, deployment, monitoring, and analytics at scale. We are looking for a Software Engineer to take on development of significant areas of the SSL Orchestrator product (Graphical policy editors, configuration GUI, reporting, etc.) and will require cross-functional interactions with the broader F5 engineering team as well as the UX team. The ideal candidate is an energetic, hands-on, and creative problem solver. 

You will be working on SSL Orchestrator – F5’s new all-in-one appliance solution designed specifically to optimize the SSL infrastructure, provide security devices with visibility of SSL/TLS encrypted traffic, and maximize efficient use of that existing security investment. This solution supports policy-based management and steering of traffic flows to existing security devices, designed to easily integrate into existing architectures, and centralizes the SSL decrypt/encrypt function by delivering the latest SSL encryption technologies across the entire security infrastructure.

Attractions of the Job:

This position will require work with cutting edge technologies and provides the opportunity to be creative and innovative to solve the problems the end users face with using our products. Simplifying and enhancing the user experience is the core mission of the team. You will work with a team that is smart, passionate and customer experience oriented.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Designs and develops industry leading GUI and/or control-plane for configuration management, graphical policy editor and configuration wizards.
• Designs and develops sophisticated visibility solutions.
• Interacts with key architects on the team, as well as the User Experience team and translates their specifications to functioning software.
• The position provides a lot of opportunity to be creative and innovative but also requires strong listening skills to understand the problems the end users face with using our products.
• Documents design and code.
• Writes code with supportability and debuggability in mind.
• Works well in a team environment.
• 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.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: 

• Advanced level knowledge of Java, Javascript (Node.js or similar), REST technologies, JSON, AJAX, web application design patterns is required.
• Knowledge of AngularJS, D3, Typescript, J2EE, HTML5, Tomcat, SQL, CSS, JSON, AJAX, MongoDB, Elasticsearch and IP networking basics is highly desired.
• Knowledge of C or C++ is highly desired.
• Experience in JSP, mxGraph, Servlet, Ext JS, JQuery, CSS3, XML, PHP, Lucene, Spring, Struts, distributed systems, centralized network management applications is a plus.
• Working knowledge of Linux environments, source code revision control systems, makefiles and packaging.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• Mastery of standard data structures and algorithms required 
• Good collaboration skills to work well with other teams and influence teams to build great products.
• Candidate must be passionate about building web based user interfaces and really enjoy solving complex user experience problems. This is a fast paced, innovative environment and requires candidate to grasp new technologies quickly.
• Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communications
• Willingness and ability to write good functional specification and design documents

Qualifications:

• 5 to 8 years with B.S OR 3 to 6 years with an M.S in Computer Science in a related field

Please use the link to apply for the position:

https://ffive.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/f5jobs/job/San-Jose/Software-Engineer-III--Backend-UI_RP1006952

Physical Demand and Work Environment

• Duties are performed in an office environment while sitting at a desk or computer table.
• This position requires the ability to use a computer keyboard, communicate over the telephone, and read printed material.
• Duties may require working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends) at times.

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. They value diversity, are inclusive and are committed to a global mindset

Benefits

We provide competitive salaries, a world class benefits package, including 100% of the premium for employee medical, dental and vision insurance, highly subsidized premiums for dependent coverage, 401K match, employees stock purchase plan, 18 days paid time off within the 1st year and 9 paid holidays, life insurance, short & long term disability insurance, tuition reimbursement, and much more.

F5 Networks, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.