Senior Security Engineer, AI & Automation
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.
The Senior Security Engineer AI & Automationis responsible fordesigning reviewing andoperatingproduction-grade automation and AI capabilities that improve the effectiveness scalability and reliability of Security Operations. As part of the Security Operations Platform Engineering (SOPE) team this role develops the platforms integrations workflows and agentic systems that enable Incident Response Threat Intelligence Detection Engineering and Threat Hunting teams tooperatemore efficiently. The ideal candidate combines strong software and automation engineering fundamentals with practical AIexperienceand the judgmentto safely deploy systems that influence security operations at scale. This role serves as a senior technical contributor responsible forestablishingtrusted maintainable and secure automation capabilities that other security functions depend upon.
Primary Responsibilities
Design and developproduction-grade automation and AI capabilities that reduce operational toil improve security outcomes and scale security operations workflows across the organization.
Review and approveCI/CD pipelines automation workflows integrations and AI-enabled systems that interact with production security platforms incident management processes and operational data.
Build andmaintainAPI-driven integrations across security technologies cloud services AI platforms and operational tooling while ensuring reliability security and observability.
Lead implementation ofagentic and AI-assisted workflows that support investigation enrichment correlation triage and response activities whilemaintainingappropriate guardrails auditability and human oversight.
Establish and promoteengineering standards for automation development testing code review change management operational safety and platform reliability.
Partner withIncident Response Detection Engineering Threat Intelligence Threat Hunting and platform engineering teams toidentifyhigh-value use cases and deliver scalable automation and AI solutions.
Evaluate and recommendAI automation and orchestration technologies by balancing innovation risk maintainability operational impact and long-term ownership.
Required Skills / Qualifications
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Cybersecurity Engineering Information Systems or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience in software engineering platform engineering security engineering automation engineering or related technical disciplines.
AdvancedproficiencyinPython and GitLab CI/CD including the ability to review troubleshoot and approve production automation pipelines infrastructure-as-code and deployment workflows.
Demonstrated experience building and supportingAPI-driven integrationsutilizingREST APIs OAuth/token-based authentication pagination rate limiting error handling and service-to-service communications.
Experience designing developing oroperatingAI-assisted agentic or LLM-powered solutions with a demonstrated ability tovalidateoutputsidentifyfailure modes and implementappropriate safeguards.
Strong written communication skills with experience producing design documents architecture decision records (ADRs) implementation plans technical reviews and collaborating effectively in asynchronous distributed environments.
Preferred Skills / Qualifications
Experience developing AI agents and workflows using Vertex AI Agent Development Kit (ADK)LangGraphLangChain Semantic KernelAutoGenCrewAI or similar frameworks.
Experience with Tines SOAR platforms workflow orchestration systems or large-scale security automation programs.
Experience supporting Detection-as-Code CI/CD-driven security content pipelines or detection engineering programs.
Experience implementing secure credential management least-privilege architecturessecretsmanagement and production-grade security controls.
Experience integrating security operations platforms such as CrowdStrike ServiceNow cloud security services SIEM platforms or related enterprise security technologies.
What Success Looks Like
Delivers trusted automation and AI capabilities that are safe reliable auditable and maintainable in production environments.
Raises engineering quality through thoughtful code reviews architecture reviews pipeline governance and automation standards.
Improves operational efficiency by automating repetitive workflows and enabling security teams to focus on higher-value investigative work.
Enables SOPE and partner teams tobuild onshared automation and AI platforms rather than creating isolated point solutions.
Advances AI adoption through measurable operational improvements whilemaintainingstrong controls transparency and trust in automated decision-making.
Work Environment
This is a full-time engineering role and is not a shift-based position.Participation in an engineering on-call rotation isand may occasionally require support outside normal business hours during critical incidents platform outages or significant operational events. The Senior Security Engineer may be engaged as a subject matter expert during security incidents but is not responsible for primary SOC operations or incident response functions.
Additional Notes
This role is focused onplatform engineering automation and AI enablement not SOC operations or detection authoring. Experience as a SOC analyst is not. Success in this role requiresstrong systemdesign skills production engineering judgment and the ability to review and safelyoperateautomation and AI systems that directlyimpactsecurity operations workflows and security platforms.
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Equal Employment Opportunity
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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.