Community Evangelist

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.

Are you passionate about empowering technology professionals developers DevOps and Platform Engineering teams through authentic community interaction and compelling technical content

F5 is seeking a Community Evangelist. In this role youll craft engaging presentations technical tutorials workshops sample code and videos that highlight real-world use cases while representing F5 at industry conferences and virtual represent the entirety of F5s platform including BIG-IP NGINX Distributed Cloud and platform operational tooling.

Blending deep technical expertise with storytelling and community building youll play a pivotal role in keeping F5 top-of-mind for our core audiences. Youll explore intersections with emerging technologies like AI helping users unlock new possibilities. If youre excited to champion a widely adopted technology and make a meaningful impact across a vibrant global user community wed love to hear from you.

Primary Responsibilities

• Represent F5 at conferences and virtual events showcasing demos and connecting with users in authentic conversation.
• Engage with users on F5s community forums by publishing technical thought-leadership content and actively responding to technical questions.
• Build relationships with industry thought leaders influencers analysts and open-source communities to strengthen F5s communities.
• Create and deliver deep-dive technical posts workshops videos and tutorials that illustrate practical use cases.
• Develop and maintain sample configurations code and reference apps that help users get started quickly.
• Act as a bridge between F5s communities industry communities and internal teamsactively gather user feedback and feature requests to help shape product requirements and influence the roadmap.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• 8 years of experience in systems engineering software engineering or developer/DevOps open source tooling roles in related technologies.
• At least 35 years in sales engineering Field CTO developer advocacy developer relations or similar external-facing technical roles.
• Technical Depth: Hands-on experience with proxy technologies such as F5 BIG-IP NGINX Kubernetes networking contructs. DevOps experience with CI/CD pipeline APIs python and automation. Familiarity with AI MCP web application security and authentication technologies. Ability to quickly dive deep into brand new technologies.
• Evangelism Expertise: Proven ability to tell stories that resonate with engineers developers Cloud Architects and technical decision makers through talks workshops content demos or community building.
• Scalable Mindset: Experience packaging technical solutions into reusable assets (configurations code samples workshops demos) rather than one-off implementations.
• Strong Communicator: Ability to translate between deep technical detail and executive-level outcomes. Skilled at articulating solutions to real-world problems at scale.
• Ability to effectively lead & own project initiatives independently.
• Great teamwork collaboration and interpersonal skills working across a global organization.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills including public presentations.
• Must be willing to travel extensively to attend technical conferences and represent F5 at industry events.

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in systems engineering software engineering or developer/DevOps open source tooling roles.
• At least 35 years in sales engineering Field CTO developer advocacy developer relations or similar external-facing technical roles.

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.

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.

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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 .