Backend Engineer

We're seeking passionate, next-gen minded engineers who are excited about solving complex technical challenges and building innovative, first-of-its-kind products which make a tangible difference for our customers. As a Backend SDE-1, you will play a key role in driving strategic initiatives, collaborating with cross-functional teams across business, product, and operations to solve exciting problems. This role demands strong technical acumen, leadership capabilities, and a mindset focused on innovation and operational excellence.

We value individuals who think independently, challenge the status quo, and bring creativity and curiosity to the table—not those who simply follow instructions. If you're passionate about solving problems and making an impact, we'd love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Understand broader organization goals and constantly prioritise your own work.
• Technical Excellence: Understand the onground problems, explore and design various possible solutions to conclude and implement scalable, extensible and secure software systems. Implement and learn best practices in technical architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure product delivery with highest speed AND quality.
• Project and Program Management: Setting up aggressive as well as realistic timelines with all the stakeholders, ensure the successful delivery of engineering projects as per the defined timelines with best quality standards ensuring budget constraints are met. Use agile methodologies to manage the development process and resolve bottlenecks.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Product Managers, Design, Business, and Operations teams to define project requirements and deliverables. Ensure the smooth integration of engineering efforts across the organization.
• Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and roadblocks. Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to reduce it.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 1+ years of experience in software engineering
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns.
• Hands on with multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks.
• Understanding of relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.

Skills:- MySQL, Python, Django, AWS, NoSQL, Kafka, Redis, ElasticSearch

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.

F5, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer III with experience in building highly available and highly scalable services on public cloud like AWS, Azure and GCP. In this role you will help develop networking and security technologies as a service (SaaS) to solve customers’ multi-cloud problem. You will be part of Cloud Orchestration team working on F5 Distributed Cloud platform.

Primary Responsibilities 

• Design and development of highly available and highly scalable services using public cloud and F5 Distributed Cloud services.

• Understand product requirements related to multi-cloud and propose solutions.

• Follow software development lifecycle for feature development i.e., design, develop, test and support the features

• Creating prototypes to validate use cases and get feedback from product team and architects.

• Work cohesively with geographically distributed team

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Experience in designing and implementing solutions for services in public cloud

• Experience in developing software in a SaaS environment

• Extensive hands-on experience in using Infrastructure as code (IsC) tools like terraform (preferred), cloud formation etc

• Extensive hands-on experience in programming languages such as Golang(preferred), python, Java, Rust

• Solid understanding of AWS VPC Networking Services like Transit Gateway, Virtual Private Gateway, Direct Connect, Gateway Load balancer, Private link etc.

• Solid understanding of Azure Networking Services like Virtual Network (Vnet), Express route, Azure load balancers etc

• Solid understanding of GCP networking services

• Good understanding and experience in L2 to L7 networking protocols including but not limited to Ethernet, TCP/IP, VLAN, BGP, HTTP

• Good understanding of container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes etc.,

• Working knowledge of CI/CD tools like GitLab, Argo

• Ability to implement all phases of a development cycle for a software product from understanding requirements, going through design, development and deploy phases

• Self-motivated and willing to delve into new areas and take on new challenges in a proactive manner

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/related field