Sr Dir, Software Development Engineering

F5•San Jose, CA

7d•$318,700 - $478,100

About The Position

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. Lead systems software engineering teams that deliver industry leading technologies for hardware platforms with increasingly complex software deployment architectures Develop, drive schedules, and coordinate with a diverse and global team to achieve large game-changing outcomes Collaborate with product management, executives, and architects to identify how best to solve the customer’s challenges Develop and raise the bar on dev and test processes, bringing in the best practices to make the daily life of an engineer enjoyable and productive. Develop trusting relationships with team members to motivate, provide clear direction, a sense of belonging for high engagement, and create a space for exceptional performance. Be technically deep enough to push on architecture trade-offs, assist with high-paced triage, and navigate multiple variables of hard driving schedules to keep F5 in its market leading position Create and promote a leadership mindset across the organization to allow any individual to make a bold impact

Requirements

Experience in application delivery technologies or similar technologies a must
Demonstrated ability to attract, build and retain an engineering team, supported by a strong engineering management team and org structure that can continue to scale
Proven ability to partner with Product Management and other cross-functional teams, define and execute against a technical roadmap
Lead the adoption and roll out of AI-assisted development tools for highly automated processes.
Hands-on capabilities to create AI context fabrics with verification of its effectiveness and be able to tune and continuously improve
Get to best in class levels of code coverage through unit and functional test suites enhanced with AI processes.
Experience with x86/ARM hardware acceleration for Networking
Expertise in using Unix/Linux development tools, and Linux virtualization
Experience in network processor programming
Excellent knowledge of TCP/IP fundamentals, multicast protocols, L2 switching technologies, IPsec
BS/MS in software engineering or equivalent degree with 15+ years of hands-on experience and 5+ years in senior leadership roles
Proven expertise in managing projects throughout the entire SDLC, delivering products to market on schedule, and ensuring feedback loops from customers into development

Responsibilities

Lead systems software engineering teams that deliver industry leading technologies for hardware platforms with increasingly complex software deployment architectures
Develop, drive schedules, and coordinate with a diverse and global team to achieve large game-changing outcomes
Collaborate with product management, executives, and architects to identify how best to solve the customer’s challenges
Develop and raise the bar on dev and test processes, bringing in the best practices to make the daily life of an engineer enjoyable and productive.
Develop trusting relationships with team members to motivate, provide clear direction, a sense of belonging for high engagement, and create a space for exceptional performance.
Be technically deep enough to push on architecture trade-offs, assist with high-paced triage, and navigate multiple variables of hard driving schedules to keep F5 in its market leading position
Create and promote a leadership mindset across the organization to allow any individual to make a bold impact