Principal Software Engineer with Golang, FIPS and Cryptography

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Principal Software Engineer with Golang, FIPS and Cryptography
Principal Software Engineer with Golang, FIPS and Cryptography

12
\- 18 yrs
Best in industry
Bengaluru (Bangalore)
Skills
Go Programming (Golang)
FIPS
Cryptography
C++
Python
Java
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 is looking for a Principal Software Engineer with experience in building FIPS-ready cryptography-based security solutions at scale. You will participate in the design and implementation of F5’s Edge Computing platform that is used to deploy global, scalable and secure applications. Your work includes, but not limited to, design, implementation, deployment, operational management, and debugging of security services of F5’s platform.
Responsibilities:
– Collaborate with architects and business leaders to understand the requirements for providing FIPS-ready cryptography-based security services for F5’s platform, design solutions, and implement them
– You will develop software for identity related security foundations of Volterra platform - Identity Management, Key Management, Secure Bootstrapping, Authentication, Authorization, Secrets Management, etc.
– You will perform necessary compliance tasks – including building and executing the test suites – required for making systems and libraries ready for FIPS
– You will vet various open source and closed source technologies, components, libraries, tools etc. and help build a highly available, highly scalable and easily manageable system
– Demonstrate technical leadership in multiple domain areas, providing mentorship to other team member
– Demonstrate leadership by taking responsibility and ownership of software components and deliver a complete product satisfying functional, scale, performance and manageability requirements
– Hands-on coding in multiple languages while considering performance, scalability, maintainability, and flexibility
Minimum Qualifications:
– BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 12+ years of software engineering and development experience
– Hands on experience with multiple computer programming languages such as Golang (must), C++, Python, Java
– Hands-on experience with FIPS 140-2 and CMVP
– Ability to implement all phases of a development cycle for a software product from understanding requirements, going through design, development and deploy phases
– Good understanding of complexities and security challenges in large-scale distributed systems
– Good understanding of security concepts like IPSec/TLS, PKI, SAML/OAuth, Key management, etc.
– Experience with Cloud Computing platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute etc.) is a plus
– Working knowledge of Virtualization technologies like KVM, Docker etc.
– Working knowledge of Cloud orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, Openstack etc.
– Excellent written and verbal communication skills
– Strong interpersonal, team building, and mentoring skills
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F5 is an industry leader in Application Delivery Networking and Security, has over 8,000 employees worldwide At F5, we make apps faster, smarter, and safer…from anywhere. Come work within the F5 BIGIP Next Base Operating System team in an exciting, fast past environment charting the course for F5’s future. As a contributing member of the team, you will be integrated into cross functional working project teams in our Product Development organization. Build services that are performant, reliable, secure, and scalable within a company known for our excellent culture. If you enjoy providing quality solutions while keeping a focus on high availability, scalability, maintainability, and security then you are the Software Engineer that we would like to have join our team.
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