Director Engineering, Cloud Control Plane (Information Technology)

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 Software Engineering, F5 Distributed Cloud Control Plane

Why do you want to join our team?

Life at F5 is never dull. We are constantly identifying industry trends and disruptions, then innovating to get ahead of future customer needs—creating application services that help the world's leading organizations deliver their critical business apps faster and with the highest levels of flexibility, security, performance, and support.

But our success isn't driven solely by what we do. We also care deeply about how we do it. At F5, our culture is how we live, every single day. And it's producing extraordinary results—not only for our customers, but also for our employees. We understand that your life is about more than just work, so we're committed to a culture that supports your whole life.

F5 Distributed Cloud has innovated a consistent, cloud-native environment that can be deployed across multiple public clouds and edge sites — a distributed cloud platform. Within this SaaS-based offering, F5XC integrates a broad range of services that have normally been siloed across many point products and network or cloud providers. The solution is designed to provide a single way to view security, operations and management components.

Position Summary

Directs an organization in the planning, organizing, development, implementing, testing, and maintaining of product deliverables through the product lifecycle. This position coordinates with the senior leaders in Product Development and with Product Management to define product roadmaps and strategic directions. Provides technical direction for product development techniques and construction.

This position is responsible for F5 Distributed Cloud's Control Plane. This work entails driving the constant evolution of our globally distributed control plane and enabling F5's products to run everywhere at scale.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of critical platform capabilities for the F5 Distributed Cloud including control  plane, cloud networking and developer tooling. 
• Employee management including but not limited to sourcing, interviewing and hiring candidates for open positions, onboarding, establishing goals, assigning or delegating work, providing on-the-job training, giving guidance to staff, conducting performance evaluations, approving paid time-off (PTO), developing performance improvement plans, and taking disciplinary action.
• Set technical and strategic direction for Product Technologies Teams and Sr. Managers
• Defines department policies.
• Acts as a mentor and trains management staff in people management.
• Develops and modifies PTG processes and methods; focus on continuous improvement.
• Directs a group of managers involved in the creation of a variety of products.
• Facilitates communication upward and across project teams.
• Develops and manages operating budgets.
• Develop and execute Product Technologies Group strategies that fulfill global market criteria and F5 corporate strategies.
• Develop successful working relationship with customers, OEMs, Channel partners, and 3rd party vendors to ensure quality of services and deliverables, timely project completion, and company financial gains.
• Researches, analyzes, and monitors the technology industry to capitalize on opportunities to minimize competitive activity and advancement.
• Represent department as needed: including project teams, task forces, audits, business or technical meetings with internal or external groups.
• Participate in continuous self-education in Engineering field (i.e., methodologies, tools) to keep abreast of industry direction and standards
• Responsible for upholding F5's Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Experience delivering SaaS and the operational aspects of supporting a 24x7 business.
• Strong background in operations for globally distributed platforms.
• Experience with scaling and performance of distributed systems.
• Knowledge and expertise in software engineering methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams; including Managers
• Experience with Control Plane and distributed networking
• Duties are performed in a normal office environment while sitting at a desk or computer table.
• Duties require the ability to utilize a computer, communicate over the telephone, and read printed material.
• Duties may require being on call periodically or working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends). Duties may require the ability to travel via automobile or airplane, approximately 10% of the time spent traveling.
• Job may be performed on-site at a customer facility or data center, or in an office environment sitting at a desk or computer table.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or other Technical field: MBA preferred
• 8+ years of experience in technical development
• 5+ years of people management experience in technical development

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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: $195,851.00 - $293,777.00

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.