Job Summary

At F5, we are building a distributed cloud services platform (XC) to support large-scale, high-performance, and highly available services across multi-cloud environments. The Control Plane Team at F5 is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer with robust technical knowledge of networking fundamentals, microservice architecture, and distributed systems, particularly in AWS environments with Kubernetes orchestration.

You will contribute to the development and lifecycle of a multi-cloud distributed platform, primarily within AWS, leveraging Kubernetes (K8s) for orchestration.

You will work with a team of experts in design and development. As a Software Development Engineer 3, you will implement stable and high-performance applications. Youll evaluate various open-source and commercial technologies, components, libraries, and tools to help build a highly available, scalable, and manageable system.

Key Responsibilities

- Take ownership of software components, ensuring the delivery of complete solutions that meet functional, scalability, performance, and manageability requirements.
- Write hands-on code in multiple languages with a focus on performance, scalability, maintainability, and flexibility.
- Develop and maintain applications using Go and C++, emphasizing scalability and high availability in distributed cloud environments.
- Deploy workloads and manage their lifecycle on cloud providers, especially AWS and GCP.




- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following industry best practices and coding standards.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams for end-to-end feature development, taking ownership and accountability.
- Investigate and resolve test pipeline failures in GitLab CI/CD environments.
- Participate in defining new software architectures, products, and solutions.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

- Proven experience with cloud technologies, especially AWS and Kubernetes, and with deploying scalable, distributed systems with a strong focus on performance and security.
- Solid understanding of API-driven product development.
- Proficiency in Go, C++ with a strong track record of contributing to complex software development projects.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and microservices architecture in cloud environments.
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and debugging skills.

Qualifications

- Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor''s degree; or 3 years with a Master''s degree; or a PhD with 1 year of experience; or equivalent work experience.

Nice to Have

- Experience working on metrics collection, observability frameworks, or telemetry pipelines.
- Background in building systems with strong monitoring, alerting, and tracing capabilities (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Telemetry).

📌 Software Development Engineer III (Bengaluru)
🏢 f5
📍 Bengaluru