F5 · 4 hours ago
Sr. Platform Engineer (Device Drivers)
San Jose
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$167K/yr - $250K/yr
8+ years expF5 is dedicated to creating a better digital world and is seeking a Sr. Platform Engineer to design, develop, and implement hardware-assisted device drivers. This role involves researching new technologies, enhancing existing products, and providing technical guidance while ensuring product performance and resolving issues.
Consumer ElectronicsSaaSSecurityVirtualization
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
Qualification
Required
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
Linux Kernel and FPGA driver development a plus
Experience with Perforce, Github and scripting language is plus
Benefits
Incentive compensation
Bonus
Restricted stock units
Benefits
Company
F5 is a multi-cloud application services and security company that specializes in application security, performance, and delivery.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (155)
2024 (110)
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
Elliott Management Corp.
2020-11-08Post Ipo Equity
1999-06-04IPO
1998-09-24Series Unknown
Leadership Team
François Locoh-Donou
President and CEO
Mohan Veloo
Chief Technology Officer - Asia Pacific, China & Japan
Recent News
2025-12-24
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