Software Architect, Distributed Cloud
Software Architect, Distributed Cloud
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$ 242360 - 363540
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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.
Ram Durairaj:
Software Architect Distributed Cloud
As a Software Architect you will partner with product engineering and operations teams to design guide and evolve F5s Distributed Cloud systems. You will focus on ensuring our architecture supports scalability security performance and innovation while enabling rapid delivery of new capabilities for our customers. This role demands both deep technical expertise and the ability to influence and align engineering efforts across multiple teams.
What Youll Do
Define and maintain the architecture roadmap for the Distributed Cloud platform aligning with business goals and customer needs.
Collaborate with engineering leadership to ensure architecture decisions are implemented consistently across services and teams.
Lead architectural reviews make build vs. buy decisions and establish technical standards for distributed cloud-native systems.
Partner with Product Management to evaluate new feature requests for architectural fit feasibility and scalability.
Identify and resolve technical debt ensuring long-term maintainability and flexibility of the platform.
Drive adoption of best practices in API design data modeling security observability and reliability engineering.
Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend their adoption where they can deliver competitive advantage or operational efficiency.
Mentor engineers and technical leads fostering growth in distributed systems design and architecture skills.
Ensure compliance with security privacy and regulatory requirements while enabling innovative solution design.
Minimum Qualifications
10 years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years in an architect or principal engineer role.
Strong expertise in distributed systems microservices architecture and cloud-native design.
Experience designing and delivering large-scale highly available and secure SaaS platforms.
Proficiency with at least one major cloud provider (AWS Azure GCP) and associated cloud services.
Strong programming skills in languages such as Go Python or Java with ability to review and guide production-grade code.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field or equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with multi-cloud architectures and hybrid cloud environments.
Familiarity with Kubernetes service meshes and container orchestration at scale.
Knowledge of security architectures for distributed applications including zero-trust principles.
Experience with real-time data processing distributed databases and event-driven architectures.
Track record of driving architectural modernization initiatives in complex environments.
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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: $242360.00 - $363540.00F5 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.
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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 .
Employment Type
Full-Time
