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.
What is the Role:
- Lead systems software engineering teams that deliver industry leading technologies for hardware platforms with increasingly complex software deployment architectures
- Develop, drive schedules, and coordinate with a diverse and global team to achieve large game-changing outcomes
- Collaborate with product management, executives, and architects to identify how best to solve the customer’s challenges
- Develop and raise the bar on dev and test processes, bringing in the best practices to make the daily life of an engineer enjoyable and productive.
- Develop trusting relationships with team members to motivate, provide clear direction, a sense of belonging for high engagement, and create a space for exceptional performance.
- Be technically deep enough to push on architecture trade-offs, assist with high-paced triage, and navigate multiple variables of hard driving schedules to keep F5 in its market leading position
- Create and promote a leadership mindset across the organization to allow any individual to make a bold impact
Qualifications:
- Experience in application delivery technologies or similar technologies a must
- Demonstrated ability to attract, build and retain an engineering team, supported by a strong engineering management team and org structure that can continue to scale
- Proven ability to partner with Product Management and other cross-functional teams, define and execute against a technical roadmap
- Lead the adoption and roll out of AI-assisted development tools for highly automated processes.
- Hands-on capabilities to create AI context fabrics with verification of its effectiveness and be able to tune and continuously improve
- Get to best in class levels of code coverage through unit and functional test suites enhanced with AI processes.
- Experience with x86/ARM hardware acceleration for Networking
- Expertise in using Unix/Linux development tools, and Linux virtualization
- Experience in network processor programming
- Excellent knowledge of TCP/IP fundamentals, multicast protocols, L2 switching technologies, IPsec
- BS/MS in software engineering or equivalent degree with 15+ years of hands-on experience and 5+ years in senior leadership roles
- Proven expertise in managing projects throughout the entire SDLC, delivering products to market on schedule, and ensuring feedback loops from customers into development
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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.
The annual base pay for this position is: $318,700.00 - $478,100.00F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.
You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.
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 [email protected].
Skills Required
- Experience with application delivery technologies or similar technologies
- Ability to attract, build, and retain engineering teams with scalable engineering management structures
- Experience partnering with Product Management and cross-functional teams to define and execute technical roadmaps
- Experience leading adoption and rollout of AI-assisted development tools
- Hands-on ability to create AI context fabrics, verify their effectiveness, and continuously improve them
- Experience achieving high code coverage through unit and functional test suites enhanced with AI processes
- Experience with x86 or ARM hardware acceleration for networking
- Expertise using Unix/Linux development tools and Linux virtualization
- Experience in network processor programming
- Excellent knowledge of TCP/IP fundamentals, multicast protocols, L2 switching technologies, and IPsec
- BS/MS in software engineering or equivalent degree
- 15+ years of hands-on experience
- 5+ years in senior leadership roles
- Expertise managing projects throughout the full SDLC and delivering products on schedule
- Ability to incorporate customer feedback into development
F5 Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about F5 and has not been reviewed or approved by F5.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity grants and an employee stock purchase plan are positioned as meaningful parts of total compensation, with RSUs and a discount ESPP commonly included. Pay packages for many technical roles are considered competitive when equity is taken into account.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid vacation that increases with tenure, sick time, paid holidays, and paid family leave are prominently featured. Additional programs like volunteer time and periodic wellness long weekends are highlighted as part of the time-off ecosystem.
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Inclusive Benefits Coverage — Health plans include travel support for specific care (such as reproductive and gender‑affirming services) and mental health resources, alongside comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage. These elements are presented as part of a broad, inclusive approach to healthcare.
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What We Do
F5 application services ensure that applications are always secure and perform the way they should—in any environment and on any device. F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) powers applications from development through their entire life cycle, across any multi-cloud environment, so our customers – enterprise businesses, service providers, governments, and consumer brands—can deliver differentiated, high-performing, and secure digital experiences.
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