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.
We’re looking for an experienced Sr. Manager to lead Firewall teams responsible for delivering securing application traffic across diverse environments including on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployment. You’ll own roadmap execution, elevate engineering excellence, and partner cross‑functionally to deliver capabilities that delight customers and meet stringent security and compliance expectations.
Primary Responsibilities
- Support, mentor, and coach as well as provide professional development for your team. Collaborate across teams and deliver high quality software to meet customer needs.
- Advise on the architecture, code patterns, testing and continuous integration details.
- Take ownership of customer issues with timely fixes and provide proper RCA (Root Cause Analysis) to the wider group.
- Collaborate with leaders in engineering and product management on roadmap, strategy, coordinating dependencies, and establishing clear requirements to effectively meet delivery and quality commitments.
- Perform continuous team member evaluations to enable frequent feedback.
- Identify hiring needs and be the hiring manager for recruiting engineers.
- Motivate and foster a collaborative environment within your team, actively engaging with senior management and executives. Adopt a managerial approach that emphasizes support and empowerment for your teams, while also championing the cultivation of a positive and cohesive team culture.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Experience and passion for taking a leading role in building complex software systems, delivered successfully to customers.
- Good understanding of Firewalls, NAT, and Intrusion Prevention/Detection System (IPS/IDS) technologies.
- Experience in working with of L2- L4 network protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP/S, DNS etc.) and system programming.
- Hands-on experience in Kubernetes & cloud technologies and deployments.
- Experience in load-balancing technology
- Knowledge and expertise in software engineering methodologies and practices for full software development process, including coding standards, code reviews, build process, CI/CD, testing, and operations.
- Working experience in Agile software development methodology.
- Demonstrated ability in mentoring and developing people.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Demonstrated excellence in all written communications.
Qualifications
- Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience; or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of prior experience in managing team of software engineers.
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.
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
- Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree
- 3+ years of prior experience in managing team of software engineers
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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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.
