Software Development Engineer III

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.

About the F5 Platform Security Team

The Platform Security team is responsible for the ensuring the products F5 builds are a secure as we can make them. We provide services and support to F5 development teams in all phases of the Secure Development Lifecycle – from design time security and threat analysis, to best development practices training, to security testing and certifications, to vulnerability response and management.

Position Summary

This position is responsible for the design, development and implementation of complete software components related to the security certifications features of the BIG-IP. Designs, develops and maintains high-quality code for complex security certification components. Requires little direct management to complete the majority of development tasks.

Primary Responsibilities

• You will collaborate with architects and business leaders to understand the requirements for providing FIPS-ready cryptography-based security services for F5's platform, design solutions, and implement them
• You will perform necessary compliance tasks – including building and executing the test suites – required for making systems and libraries ready for FIPS
• You will vet various open source and closed source technologies, components, libraries, tools etc. and help build a highly available, highly scalable and easily manageable system
• Demonstrate technical leadership in multiple security domain, providing mentorship to other team members
• Participating in threat modelling of new product features
• Manual identification and exploitation of security vulnerabilities.
• Detailed analysis of issues identified, including proof of concept, reproduction steps, and recommended remediation.
• Building custom instrumentation and tools to assist security assessment
• Demonstrate leadership by taking responsibility and ownership of software components and deliver a complete product satisfying functional, scale, performance and manageability requirements
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• 8+ years product development experience in embedded operating systems
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 8+ years of software engineering and development experience
• Hands on experience with multiple computer programming languages such as, C++, Python, or Golang (good to have).
• Good knowledge in networking.
• Hands-on experience with FIPS 140-2, EU CRA, EUCC, IPV6 and Common Criteria
• Ability to implement all phases of a development cycle for a software product from understanding requirements, going through design, development and deploy phases
• Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communications
• Able to collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced high-performance environment

Qualifications

Typically requires a minimum of 8+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree

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.

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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.