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Software Engineer III – Cloud Networking & Control Plane

We are looking for a Software Engineer III to build and maintain the networking control-plane that connects services and workloads across our cloud platform. You will contribute to production systems that manage routing, connectivity, and configuration across clusters and environments.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and maintain control-plane and backend services for routing and network connectivity.• Implement features and fixes related to traffic routing, configuration, and service connectivity.• Keep network state and configuration in sync as systems change.• Improve reliability and availability of networking services.• Write unit and integration tests for your code.• Add logging and metrics to support troubleshooting.• Participate in code reviews and day-to-day engineering execution.• Help diagnose and resolve production issues.

What You Bring

• Experience building backend or infrastructure software using Go, or C/C++• Understanding of basic networking concepts such as IP addressing, routing, and connectivity.• Experience working with service-based or distributed systems.• Familiarity with Linux and cloud environments.• Ability to debug and fix issues in production systems.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in software engineering.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

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 accommodations@f5.com.