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.
The XC Business Unit at F5 is searching for an outstanding and experienced Senior Software Engineer for our Platform Engineering engineers based out of a few locations in India. On our team, you will have a major hand in the design and development of the data path modules of our distributed cloud offering.
Responsibilities:
Quality Assurance & Testing
Design, develop, and maintain automated and manual test strategies for data pipelines, ETL processes, and data integrations.
Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and integrity across various data sources and transformations.
Develop robust data validation frameworks to identify anomalies and inconsistencies.
Implement performance testing strategies to optimize data processing efficiency.
Test Automation & CI/CD
Build scalable test automation frameworks for data processing workflows, APIs, and distributed systems.
Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to ensure rapid, reliable deployments.
Define and maintain best practices for test automation within data engineering teams.
Data Governance & Compliance
Enforce data quality standards, data governance policies, and regulatory compliance requirements.
Collaborate with data engineering teams to ensure proper data lineage, logging, and monitoring.
Conduct audits to validate data security, privacy, and access control policies.
Collaboration & Process Improvement
Work closely with data engineers, analysts, and product teams to understand data requirements and test cases.
Drive best practices for data quality and testing methodologies within the engineering organization.
Mentor junior QA engineers and contribute to a culture of quality and continuous improvement.
Monitoring & Incident Management
Develop proactive monitoring strategies to detect data issues before they impact business processes.
Investigate and troubleshoot data quality issues, providing root cause analysis and resolution
Define SLAs for data reliability and ensure adherence through automated alerting and logging.
Skills and Experience:
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Background as a software engineer is critical along with familiarity with the full tech stack for backend platform engineering. Prior experience with cloud technology and networking, load balancers, routing platforms, control plane, SDN, docker, kubernetes, public cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure) etc.
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Specialist in various software architectures such as distributed systems and microservices
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Define software automation objections (a.k.a software rules)
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Create high quality product designs at the initial stages of Development Engineering operations.
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Experience with modern CI/CD concepts (continuous integration and delivery, project management, reporting tools, Git, CI/CD tools, etc.)
Qualifications:
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5+ years of QA in data platform/systems
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10+ years in technology overall
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Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent experience
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.
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.
