Senior Programmability Engineer - Webassembly

F5; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

F5 is looking for a Senior Programmability Engineer in Seattle who will design and develop tooling leveraging WebAssembly within data planes. The ideal candidate has 6-8 years of experience in software development and is passionate about enhancing developer experience.

This role involves collaborating with product teams, optimizing performance, and overseeing improvements with geographically distributed teams, emphasizing leadership and robust software engineering principles.

Qualifications

• 6-8 years of software development experience.
• Experience with WebAssembly is a plus.
• Strong background in software engineering principles.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new developer tooling.
• Aid product teams in feature development.
• Profile and optimize performance.
• Collaborate with architecture and application teams.

Skills

Software development experience

WebAssembly

Proxy/load balancing/networking knowledge

Development styles and languages

Design and analytical skills

Leadership and collaboration skills

Communication and documentation skills

Job description

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, and we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

Senior Programmability Engineer

Position Summary

This position will design and develop tooling that leverages WebAssembly (Wasm) implementations within F5 data planes. A successful candidate values developer and customer experience and can connect that to technical decisions.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design and implement new developer tooling, from concept to production
• Aid product development teams developing features using this tooling to improve the implementation
• Profile and optimize performance
• Help set expectations with software, architecture, and hardware stakeholders
• Work with geographically distributed compiler, architecture and application teams to oversee improvements and problem resolutions

Qualifications

• 6-8 years of prior software development work experience or related
• Experience with WebAssembly highly desirable
• Several years of experience developing for proxy/load balancing/networking use cases in a significant commercial or open-source context
• Background shipping in several paradigms such as SaaS, deployed software, customer deployed infrastructure, etc.
• Proficiency in a variety of development styles and languages, both static and dynamic
• Strong design and analytical skills in tooling and developer experience
• Excellent leadership and collaboration skills
• Strong background in software engineering principles with a focus on crafting robust and maintainable solutions to challenging problems
• Good communication and documentation skills

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 [e-mail].