F5 is looking to solve the problem of designing, guiding, and evolving its Distributed Cloud systems to ensure scalability, security, performance, and innovation while enabling rapid delivery of new capabilities for customers.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in an architect or principal engineer role.
- Strong expertise in distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud-native design.
- Experience designing and delivering large-scale, highly available, and secure SaaS platforms.
- Proficiency with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) and associated cloud services.
- Strong programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, or Java, with ability to review and guide production-grade code.
- Experience with multi-cloud architectures and hybrid cloud environments.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, service meshes, and container orchestration at scale.
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain the architecture roadmap for the Distributed Cloud platform, aligning with business goals and customer needs.
- Collaborate with engineering leadership to ensure architecture decisions are implemented consistently across services and teams.
- Lead architectural reviews, make build vs. buy decisions, and establish technical standards for distributed, cloud-native systems.
- Partner with Product Management to evaluate new feature requests for architectural fit, feasibility, and scalability.
- Identify and resolve technical debt, ensuring long-term maintainability and flexibility of the platform.
- Drive adoption of best practices in API design, data modeling, security, observability, and reliability engineering.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend their adoption where they can deliver competitive advantage or operational efficiency.
Other
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Knowledge of security architectures for distributed applications, including zero-trust principles.
- Experience with real-time data processing, distributed databases, and event-driven architectures.
- Track record of driving architectural modernization initiatives in complex environments.
