Director, Software Engineering

San Jose, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 249600 - 374400

Posted on: 15 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.

Position Summary

This position is for a Director of Engineering 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 organizations 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:

10 years hands-on software development experience
Solid product development experience in C / C Java Python and Go
5 years leading or managing a large geographically distributed team
Proven track record and experience leading engineering projects with teams
Experience and passion for taking a leading role in building complex software systems delivered successfully to customers.
Demonstrated ability in mentoring and developing direct reports
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Demonstrated excellence in written communications
Good experience in web service and REST API design and implementation.
Proven experience in public cloud platforms: GCP AWS etc.
Good understanding of software development lifecycles (SDLC) and Agile methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

Knowledge of Application Security Products such as WAAP Bot ZTNA etc.
Experience managing both UI backend and platform engineering teams
Proficient with SQL/ NoSQL Databases
Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science or related field or equivalent experience.

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: $249600.00 - $374400.00

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 .

Required Experience:

Director