Staff Software Engineer - DevOps
A10 Networks
San Jose, CA · Posted October 23, 2026
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About the job
Staff Software Engineer - DevOps
(SF Bay Area Candidates Only)
Great Tech! Great Team! Great Culture!
A10 Networks is seeking a highly motivated individual who is passionate about DevOps, Infrastructure, CI/CD, and automation. DevOps uses automation extensively to achieve high efficiency in engineering operations. Be a part of the team that is creating new automations for the hybrid cloud and on-premise products as well as enhancing existing automations to enhance efficiency, scalability, and productivity of engineering.
A10 Networks is a global leader in secure application services. Our solutions protect and optimize application performance in a world of many clouds. Over 7800 customers across the world rely on our award-winning, innovative, and performant products and services to keep their businesses running.
Job Description
Collaborate across global teams including Engineering, IT, and Support to gather requirements, design, develop, implement, test, and maintain technical solutions, internal DevOps tools, Engineering development infrastructure, CI/CD, release process, etc.
Define, design, and develop automated infrastructure provisioning framework on hybrid clouds and on-prem with IaC methodology, Terraform, OpenShift, CloudStack, Ansible, etc.
Develop, enhance, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for A10 products, including AI services and LLM models
Integrate tests such as unit, security, vulnerability, smoke, static analysis, etc. into CI/CD workflow
Provide technical support internal Engineering customers and develop tools and processes to help increase Engineering productivity
Proactively participate into technical design and code reviews
Troubleshoot and resolve issues in the DevOps and development environments
Document procedures, processes to enable knowledge proliferation
Research and develop AI driven tool development and maintenance
Qualifications
Experience in DevOps, Infrastructure, Tooling, Build, and Release
Familiar with public clouds such as OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP as well as on-premise infrastructure
Familiar with Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, or other infrastructure orchestration tools such as OpenShift, CloudStack, OpenNebula, etc.
Hands-on experience with developing, automating, and debugging scripts using one or more programming languages such as Python, Linux shell, Go, Groovy, Perl, and other relevant programming languages
Experience with CI/CD pipeline automation, branching strategies, software build systems, release processes, and engineering tools for software and SaaS products. Familiar with build processes such as Make, Docker, Podman, Maven, npm, Go, etc.
Familiar with GitLab, GitHub, JIRA, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Artifactory, and integration of tools for project management, defect tracking, static analysis, security vulnerability scanning, OSS licensing, etc.
Experience with Linux RHEL/Ubuntu, yum/dnf/apt package management. Familiar with Linux administration and maintenance, user/group management, NFS, etc.
Familiar with virtualization technologies such as Kubernetes, VM, Docker containers, KVM, VMware ESXi, Proxmox, etc.
Knowledge of observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch, Kibana, etc.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or related degree and 2+ years of related experience
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Targeted compensation guideline: $120,000 - $155,000. Compensation will vary based on number of factors, including market demand for specific skills, role type, job level, and individual qualifications. Final salary offers are determined by considerations including, but not limited to, subject matter expertise, demonstrated skill level, relevant experience, geographic location, education, certifications, and training.
A10 Networks is an equal opportunity employer and a VEVRAA federal subcontractor. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. A10 also complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.
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