Sr. Architect, Application Delivery
Sr. Architect, Application Delivery
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Job Description
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 Distributed Cloud is seeking a Senior Architect for Application Delivery to lead the architectural design and evolution of core application delivery services within our SaaS platform. This includes shaping the direction of services such as load balancing traffic steering DNS Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) content acceleration and caching. You will:
Design and evolve SaaS-native architectures for load balancing traffic routing DNS and acceleration services ensuring performance scalability and low latency across global deployments.
Define and promote architectural principles for multi-tenant isolation regional failover routing logic and service composition.
Work closely with product and development teams to ensure software and product architectures are developed in line with the vision and future direction of the company.
Evaluate emerging technologies and paradigms for inclusion in our architecture.
Drive projects and the workflow of teams serving as mentor to all engineering levels.
Partner with management on driving product timelines.
Participate in cross-functional design projects serving as consultant to management in long-range company planning concerning new or projected areas of technological research/advancement.
Collaborate with product SRE and development teams to define scalable secure and fault-tolerant designs aligned with platform goals.
Mentor and guide engineers at all levels instilling architectural best practices and technical leadership across multiple teams.
Represent architecture in planning forums contributing to roadmap prioritization and long-range technical strategy and roadmap.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
Develop and maintain reference architectures design documents and reusable frameworks for application delivery components.
Drive architectural reviews design validations and threat models to ensure operational security and scalability concerns are addressed early.
Analyze system bottlenecks and propose optimization strategies for throughput latency and resource efficiency.
Collaborate on capacity planning rollout strategies and regional deployment patterns.
Identify emerging technologies protocols and approaches in application delivery.
Leading software development projects.
Documenting and recording every aspect of an application or software.
Planning tracking and scheduling software deliverables.
Looking for problems within software systems and driving issues to resolution.
Developing good working relationships with other employees such as UX Marketing Managers Product Managers Programmers and Engineers.
Skills and Qualifications:
15 years designing application delivery and data plane systems.
Deep knowledge of L4L7 networking protocols including HTTP TLS TCP UDP and DNS.
Experience with load balancing algorithms service discovery caching and GSLB.
Experience designing and implementing distributed cloud solutions at scale.
Understanding of containers and orchestration technologies.
Experience architecting multi-region multi-tenant systems with a focus on availability and performance.
Strong communication skills and ability to articulate trade-offs in technical decision-making to diverse audiences.
Broad understanding of coding and programming languages.
Extensive knowledge of the software development process and corresponding technologies.
Strong soft skills including attention to detail problem-solving and communication skills.
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: $237848.00 - $356772.00F5 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 F5s 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 F5s benefits can be found at the following link: 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 @) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with or @).
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 .
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
