- 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.

Director of Software Engineering - BIGIP for Kubernetes.

- We are seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead the development of our next- generation cloud- native networking, security and AI platforms.

- This role will own the delivery of firewall, traffic management, and AI- driven capabilities designed to run across on- prem Kubernetes environments and public cloud platforms.

- You will lead multiple engineering teams building high- scale, high- performance systems at the intersection of networking, security, cloud, and AI.

- This is a senior leadership role with significant influence over product direction, architecture, and execution.

Primary Responsibilities:

- Lead and scale a multi- team software engineering organization delivering cloud- native networking, security and AI solutions.

- Define and evolve the technical architecture for distributed, cloud- native systems.

- Partner closely with Product Management to shape roadmap, priorities, and delivery plans.

- Guide adoption of Kubernetes- first and microservices- based designs, including CNFs.

- Oversee development of high- performance data plane and scalable control plane services.

- Drive integration of AI/ML capabilities for traffic intelligence, security detection, and automation.

- Establish best practices for software quality, reliability, security, and operational excellence.

- Hire, develop, and mentor engineering managers and senior engineers.

- Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and innovation.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

- Strong foundation in networking fundamentals.

- Experience with firewall, security and traffic management technologies.

- Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud- native architectures.

- Hands-on familiarity with Kubernetes and container- based platforms.

- Exposure to AI inferencing optimization techniques.

- Able to collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced high-performance environment.

- Regularly finds ways to communicate widely through discussions, white papers, publications and other.

- Regularly demonstrates collaboration by promoting others' ideas, influencing others, and making teams successful.

- Regarded as technical lead by peers and management.

- Duties may require being on call periodically or working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends).

Qualification:

- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in engineering leadership roles.

- Proven experience leading multiple teams or managers delivering complex platforms.

- Track record of shipping enterprise- grade products in networking, security, or cloud platforms.

- 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.