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.

Position Summary

F5 is seeking an experienced engineering manager to lead a distributed, cross-functional team executing on a new product initiative spanning F5’s existing hardware, software, and hybrid offerings. Successful candidates will have a proven record of leading remote teams.

In addition to providing guidance, managing performance, and supporting team members’ professional development, this role will be responsible for striking the delicate balance between exploratory, greenfield development and delivering the rock-solid, enterprise-grade technical solutions that F5 is known for.

Primary Responsibilities

Lead and shape the product development team, fostering a culture of trust, growth, and autonomy.
Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering leadership to deliver a strategy, roadmap, and execution plan for the team.
Establish a development cadence and be accountable for proactively communicating and mitigating risks to delivery.
Engage with peers across the company to create alignment on interdependencies.
Fully understand and represent the team’s technical decisions to internal stakeholders.
Be a knowledgeable point of contact for balancing technical options against business objectives.
Handle people management functions including interviewing, hiring, onboarding, setting goals, providing continuous feedback, holding regular 1:1 meetings, evaluating talent, and, when necessary, developing performance improvement plans and taking disciplinary action.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Essential

Experience building and leading geographically distributed teams.
Excellent written communication and interpersonal skills.
Strong background in software development, preferably including Go or Python.
Practical knowledge of containerization and cloud native software deployments.

Nice to Have

Functional knowledge of distributed systems development and deployment.
Understanding of operating system fundamentals, Linux networking, load balancing techniques, and protocols like HTTP and gRPC.
Familiarity with AI/ML and related subjects (Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, etc.)

Qualifications

5+ years of software development experience
2+ years of experience leading or managing a development team

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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: $157,904.00 - $236,856.00

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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