Sr. Platform Engineer (Device Drivers)

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.

Position Summary: 

This position is responsible for the design, development, and implementation of hardware-assisted device drivers on new hardware platforms (chassis and appliance). This role researches, investigates, and defines new areas of technology to enhance existing products or new product directions; implements (codes and tests) to a defined set of requirements; documents software designs via functional specifications and other design documents; evaluates the performance of products; tunes and re-evaluates the design and implementation of current source code; and diagnoses, documents, and resolves product issues found in QA and in the field.

Attractions of the Job:  

• Opportunity to work on industry leading-edge technology
• Opportunity to work with architects in defining next-generation products
   

Primary Responsibilities

• 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
• Responsible for upholding F5’s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:          

•  Excellent analytic and trouble-shooting skills.
•  Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work with and support several different engineers (HW and SW) locally and remotely.
• Ability to estimate work and deliver tested and working software on time.
• Able to collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced high-performance environment.
• Demonstrated leadership role within project team.
• Extensive knowledge of product life cycle.
• Must be a Subject Matter Expert in multiple skill areas.
•  Self-starter with the ability to learn quickly in a fast paced environment.
   

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years’ experience in the development of computer software in areas relevant to F5 product line
• BS/BA in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience.
• Strong knowledge and extensive experience with relevant platform technologies.
• Knowledge of Cryptography, OpenSSL, SSL accelerators and public key infrastructure(PKI) are essential.
• Experience in developing the crypto device driver in Linux system.
• Experience in bringing up a crypto accelerator chip in a platform.
• Strong debugging and profiling skills especially in distributed / multithreaded environment.
• Strong multi-threaded programming skills.
• Proficiency in C/C++ programming languages with strong knowledge of data structures, run time complexities, IPC, RPC
•  Must have strong L2/L3 networking experience.
• Good understanding of protocols such as TCP, UDP, HTTP, SNMP
•  Knowledge and expertise in software engineering methodologies and effective unit testing.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Linux Kernel and FPGA driver development a plus
• Experience with Perforce, Github and scripting language is plus.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• Duties are performed in a normal office environment while sitting at a desk or computer table.
• Duties require the ability to utilize a computer, communicate over the telephone, and read printed material.
• Duties may require being on call periodically or working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends).Duties may require the ability to travel via automobile or airplane, approximately 10% of the time spent traveling.
• Job may be performed on-site at a customer facility or data center, or in an office environment sitting at a desk or computer table.

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.

The annual base pay for this position is: $166,625.00 - $249,937.00

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice. 

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.