Sr Engineering Manager

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.

This position is for a Sr Engineering Manager in F5 Security and Distributed Cloud product team. This role will empower engineers, recruit, hire and mentor their directs while also acting as a coach/guide, provide feedback to help their group of engineers grow, and expand their professional development. The position will need to outline expectations, support your directs in your team, offer support and assistance where necessary for them to succeed in their job. 

Primary Responsibilities 

• Act as an advisor and coach to directs on their work and team dynamics.
• Performance manage directs to enable engineers to operate at their highest potential.
• Sourcing, interviewing and hiring candidates for open positions, onboarding, guidance to staff, conducting performance evaluations, developing performance improvement plans, and taking corrective action as needed.
• Be knowledgeable and a point of contact for product vision, goals, and process.
• Align engineers to the corporate and organization’s strategy, focus on customer use cases, experience and quality .
• Recommend changes to policies and establishes procedures that affect immediate organization(s).
• Evaluates and reviews new technologies on their applicability to product architecture and design.
• Model F5 Behaviors and Agile principles.
• Collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced high-performance environment. 

Required Skills

• Proven track record and experience leading engineering projects with 10+ member team .
• Engineering and application delivery expertise.
• Demonstrated ability in mentoring and developing direct reports.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrated excellence in written communications.
• Experience managing both UI and backend projects.
• Solid product development experience in Java, Python and Go.
• Good experience in web service and REST API design and implementation.
• Proficient with SQL/ NoSQL Databases.
• Proven experience in public cloud platforms: GCP, AWS.
• Good understanding of software development lifecycles (SDLC) and Agile methodologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or related field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years hands-on software development experience.
• 3+ years leading or managing a large geographically distributed team.

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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: $175,728.00 - $263,592.00

F5 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].