Software Architect, Distributed Cloud (Information Technology)
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Software Architect, Distributed Cloud
As a Software Architect, you will partner with product, engineering, and operations teams to design, guide, and evolve F5's Distributed Cloud systems. You will focus on ensuring our architecture supports scalability, security, performance, and innovation while enabling rapid delivery of new capabilities for our customers. This role demands both deep technical expertise and the ability to influence and align engineering efforts across multiple teams.
What You'll Do
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.
Mentor engineers and technical leads, fostering growth in distributed systems design and architecture skills.
Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements while enabling innovative solution design.
Minimum Qualifications
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.
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.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with multi-cloud architectures and hybrid cloud environments.
Familiarity with Kubernetes, service meshes, and container orchestration at scale.
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.
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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: $242,360.00 - $363,540.00F5 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.
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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.
