Responsibilities
Effectively lead data path areas of the XC product line
Understand the distributed systems deeply and design scalable solutions
Technically lead the implementation of major system components
Document software designs via functional specifications and other design documents
Proactively identifying and resolving key technical issues
Work on performance improvements across the platform
Investigate and propose solutions for the security vulnerabilities of Distributed Cloud platform and third-party packages used by the platform
Serve as a source of technical expertise to the product team and be a mentor for junior staff members
Keep abreast of new technologies, potential business partners
Efficiently communicate/collaborate internally at F5
Conduct presentations both internally and externally - this includes technical and non-technical colleagues and customers
Recommend and maintain technical design methodologies, processes and standards
Qualifications
Minimum of fifteen years of significant software development and engineering experience.
Ten or more years designing, implementing and evangelizing large scale distributed systems
Prior experience with cloud technology and networking, load balancers, routing platforms, control plane, SDN, Docker, Kubernetes, public cloud (Azure, AWS) etc.
Experience with any commercial load balancer
Architectural skills and ability to deep dive into technical challenges
Aptitude for solving complex problems and attitude of transcending current/classic technology preferences in favour of finding right solutions for our customers
Specialist in various software architectures such as distributed systems and microservices
Strong engineering and design skills, with solid understanding of real-time high performance, scalable and distributed systems
Positive communication, presentation skills and ability to work well in a development team
Proven experience driving complex SW development and test efforts in small and fast paced organizations, with an understanding of the trade-offs that must be made to ensure timeliness and quality.
Strong SW engineering and design skills with an eye for detail
Passion for learning current technologies, and a track record of doing so.