Software Architect – BIGIP for Kubernetes

San Jose, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 234400 - 351600

Posted on: 13 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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.

Job Description:
F5 is seeking an Architect to lead the architectural vision strategy and execution for the BIGIP Kubernetes platform designed for AI and cloud-native applications. This leadership role is responsible for ensuring scalability security performance and agility across all technical domains of BIGIPs AI Kubernetes and cloud-native capabilitiesincluding but not limited to traffic management load balancing security orchestration and observability.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Set long-term architectural direction guiding major technology choices and innovation areas.
Collaborate closely with product and development teams to ensure software and product architectures align with the companys vision and future direction.
Drive architectural reviews design validations and threat modeling to address operational security and scalability concerns early in the process.
Partner with management to drive product timelines.
Lead technical due diligence competitive assessments and horizon scanning for new technologies and paradigms.
Mentor junior team members.

Required Qualifications:

Expert knowledge and extensive experience with L2L7 network protocols (IP TCP/UDP TLS DNS HTTP gRPC BGP etc.) and web technologies.
Experience architecting and designing AI and cloud-native products and infrastructure.
Strong expertise in distributed systems microservices architecture and cloud-native design.
Exceptional problem-solving and project management skills.
Strong leadership abilities and a talent for mentoring and developing engineers.
Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communication.
Ability to collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced high-performance environment.
Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelors degree; or 10 years with a Masters degree; or a PhD with 8 years of experience; or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

Deep understanding of DPU and GPU technologies.
Experience leading complex product development initiatives from concept through release.
Extensive development experience with Linux / Unix-like operating systems.

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: $234400.00 - $351600.00

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 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 .

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