Director, Software Engineering
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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.
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.
Engineering Director Distributed Cloud
At F5 we help the worlds largest organizations securely deliver and operate applications in any environment from data center to cloud to edge. Our Distributed Cloud platform brings together networking security and application delivery in a unified cloud-native experience. Were looking for an Engineering Director to lead a high-performing team building and operating our distributed cloud services at global scale.
In this role you will guide a team of talented engineers responsible for designing developing and maintaining distributed cloud-native systems that power our customers most critical applications. You will foster a culture of technical excellence collaboration and innovation while ensuring delivery of secure scalable and reliable services.
What Youll Do
- Lead mentor and grow a team of software engineers working on F5s Distributed Cloud platform.
- Partner with Product Management Architecture and other engineering teams to define priorities scope projects and deliver high-impact features.
- Drive the design implementation and operation of large-scale distributed cloud-native services across multi-cloud and edge environments.
- Champion engineering best practices including CI/CD test automation observability and operational excellence.
- Ensure security scalability and resilience are core considerations in all deliverables.
- Support career growth through regular feedback coaching and opportunities for skill development.
- Collaborate with other leaders to improve cross-team processes and ensure smooth integration of services within the broader platform.
- Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to long-term technical vision for the Distributed Cloud.
What Youll Bring
- 15 years of professional software engineering experience including 8 years in technical or engineering management role.
- Proven success delivering complex distributed systems in production ideally in SaaS or cloud environments.
- Strong technical foundation in areas such as Kubernetes microservices networking and cloud infrastructure (AWS Azure GCP).
- Experience with Go Python Java or similar languages.
- Familiarity with observability monitoring and incident response in large-scale systems.
- Ability to work cross-functionally and align technical priorities with business goals.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills with a passion for growing and empowering engineers.
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field (or equivalent practical 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.
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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About Company
F5 application services ensure that applications are always secure and perform the way they should—in any environment and on any device.
