Software Engineer

Role Summary

At F5, we make apps faster, smarter, and saferfrom anywhere.Come work within theBIGIP Shared Components Teamin an exciting, fastpaced environment. Wemaintainand enhance common binaries, daemons, libraries, and scripts that power BIGIP across the platform.Youllown highimpact components endtoendkeeping them reliable, secure, and performantwhile contributing features, fixes, and healthy release practices.

About the Team

• We are the stewards of BIGIPsshared/buildingblock software: daemons, shared libs, system tools, and scripting ecosystems (Perl/Tcl/Python, JS, Java). We ensure these componentsremainmodern, 64bit ready, secure, and welltestedso product teams can ship confidently.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improvesystem daemons, binaries, shared libraries, andscripting utilities(Perl, Python,Tcl) on CentOS/RHEL.

• Implement fixes and enhancements; ensure compatibility with current OS/toolchains and alignment with platform standards.

• Contribute to operational excellence: health checks, logs/metrics, start/stop behavior, and service reliability.

• Write andmaintainunit, functional, and integration tests; automate in CI/CD.

• Participate in design and code reviews; deliver clear documentation (release notes, runbooks, migration/change guides).

• Evaluateopensourceoptions for shared functionality; follow licensing and compliance guidelines.

• Runmandatory security scans(static analysis, vuln scans) and remediate findings.

Qualifications

• Linux Fundamentals:Processes, memory, filesystems; service lifecycle withsystemd/runit; RPM packaging basics.

• Programming:StrongC/C++for daemons/libs; practicalPerl/Tcl/Pythonfor tools and wrappers; familiarity with JS/Node or Java/JARsa plus.

• Build & Toolchain:GCC/Clang, Make/CMake/autotools; comfortable with compiler/linker flags (e.g., -m64, -fPIC, -Wl,...).

• Debugging:Proficient withgdb,strace,ldd,objdump; working knowledge ofvalgrindand sanitizers (ASan/UBSan).

• Testing:Experience building automated test suites and integrating into CI (Jenkins/GitLab CI).

• Security Awareness:Static analysis, vulnerability scanning; secure coding practices (boundschecking, input validation).

• Documentation & Collaboration:Clear written communication; crossteam partnership with platform, QA, release engineering.

Preferred (Nice to Have)

• RPM spec files and packaging workflows; containerized builds (Docker/Podman).

• Exposure tomessaging stacks(e.g.,ZeroMQ,Asio) orgraphics/text stacks(e.g.,Cairo,Pango,Harfbuzz).

• Familiarity with monitoring/observability toolchains and performance tuning.