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F5, Inc.

Senior Architect, Distributed Cloud

San Jose, CA · On-site

$268K - $403K/yr

F5 Distributed Cloud is looking for a Sr Architect to lead the architectural vision, strategy, and ... Hands-on experience with coding and programming languages. * Extensive knowledge of the software ...

F5, Inc.

Sr. Software Engineer - Agentic AI

Seattle, WA · On-site

$139K - $183K/yr

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across ... You lead through influence-clarifying direction, aligning teams, and delivering outcomes with ...

F5, Inc.

Sr Web Developer

Louisville, CO · On-site

$163K - $244K/yr

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across ... Position Summary The Sr. Software Engineer provides software development support by analyzing ...

F5, Inc.

Engineer III

San Jose, CA · On-site

$226K - $232K/yr

F5, Inc. seeks Engineer III in San Jose, CA: Job Duties: Define, collect and interpret product and ... of software features enhancements and bug fixes. Telecommuting is an option. Travel to the F5 ...

F5, Inc.

Network Support Engineer II

Seattle, WA · On-site

$138K - $142K/yr

F5, Inc. seeks Network Support Engineer II in Seattle, WA: Job Duties: Demonstrates good judgement ... software issues on F5 product and services, based on data analysis of a complex set of customer ...

F5, Inc.

Product Manager II

Seattle, WA · On-site

Support teams across F5 in transitioning from simple prompt-engineering to complex, multi-agent ... Lead Agile sprints and collaborate closely with systems, platform, and security engineers. Required ...

F5, Inc.

Senior Manager, Network Engineering

Seattle, WA · On-site

$118K - $162K/yr

Lead the implementation and management of firewalls, F5 products, and future SASE solutions with a ... Build and manage a specialized team of engineers skilled in network automation, security, and edge ...

F5, Inc.

Global Account Director - NVIDIA

San Jose, CA · On-site

The ideal candidate has a proven track record of enterprise software sales, direct experience ... Partner with F5 Product Management and Engineering to represent NVIDIA's technology requirements ...

F5, Inc.

Enterprise Architect

Seattle, WA · On-site

$185K - $277K/yr

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across ... This role defines the blueprint that engineering teams build to and owns the long-term health of ...

F5, Inc.

Financial Analyst III

Seattle, WA · On-site

$101K - $151K/yr

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across ... Lead forecasting, budgeting, and strategic planning activities for Product Management and ...

F5, Inc.

AI Engineer

Seattle, WA · On-site

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across ... Lead end-to-end model lifecycle: data pipelines, training, evaluation, fine-tuning, validation ...

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Senior Architect, Distributed Cloud

F5, Inc.

San Jose, CA • On-site

$268K - $403K/yr

Full-time

Re-posted 20 days ago

Job description

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.
F5 Distributed Cloud is looking for a Sr Architect to lead the architectural vision, strategy, and execution across Distributed Cloud Application Delivery Products. This is a senior leadership role responsible for ensuring scalability, security, performance, and agility across all technical domains of the service-CDN, DNS, MCN, and Load Balancing.
You will:
  • Set long-term architectural direction, guiding major technology choices and innovation areas.
  • Influence and shape technical strategy.
  • Oversee architectural governance, ensuring design consistency, risk management, and scalability across teams and services.
  • Establish architectural guardrails and principles for service isolation, zero trust, multi-region resilience, performance, and developer velocity.
  • Drive cross-functional alignment among product, security, infrastructure, SRE, and development teams to ensure coherent, secure, and customer-driven architecture.
  • Collaborate with product, SRE, and development teams to define scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant designs aligned with platform goals.
  • Mentor senior architects and technical leads, growing architecture talent and fostering technical leadership across the organization.
  • Represent Application Delivery architecture and capabilities to executive stakeholders, customers, and external forums.
  • Ensure all components and systems are designed with operability, testability, compliance, and security as first principles.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Work closely with product and development teams to ensure software and product architectures are developed in line with the vision and future direction of the company.
  • Drive architectural reviews, design validations, and threat models to ensure operational, security, and scalability concerns are addressed early.
  • Partner with management on driving product timelines.
  • Lead technical due diligence, competitive assessments, and horizon scanning for new technologies and paradigms.
  • Lead software development projects.
  • Ensure the documenting and recording every aspect of Distributed Cloud.
  • Planning, tracking and scheduling software deliverables.
  • Ensure teams can identify problems within software systems and driving issues to resolution.
  • Developing good working relationships with other employees and senior leadership.

Skills and Qualifications:
  • 12+ years in architecture leadership roles, with 5+ years in a Chief Architect or Principal Architect capacity for a global SaaS or cloud platform.
  • Proven experience designing and operating multi-tenant, multi-region, highly available SaaS services at global scale.
  • Deep technical expertise in CDN, edge computing, routing, load balancing, DDoS mitigation, and application layer security.
  • Understanding of containers and orchestration technologies.
  • Hands-on experience with coding and programming languages.
  • Extensive knowledge of the software development process and corresponding technologies.
  • Excellent understanding of design patterns and architectural styles.
  • Proficient knowledge of the operation and development designs of agile software.
  • Strong soft skills, including attention to detail, problem-solving and communication skills.

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: $268,800.00 - $403,200.00
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 F5's 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 F5's benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. 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 @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com)
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 accommodations@f5.com.

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