Collaborate with leaders in engineering and product management on roadmap, strategy, coordinating dependencies, and establishing clear requirements to effectively meet delivery and quality commitments.
Perform continuous team member evaluations to enable frequent feedback.
Identify hiring needs and be the hiring manager for recruiting engineers.
Motivate and foster a collaborative environment within your team, actively engaging with senior management and executives. Adopt a managerial approach that emphasizes support and empowerment for your teams, while also championing the cultivation of a positive and cohesive team culture.
Establish best practices for software quality, reliability, security, and operational excellence
Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and innovation
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Experience and passion for taking a leading role in building complex software systems, delivered successfully to customers.
Experience building Kubernetes native micro-services leveraging gRPC, AS3, protobufs, helm etc.
Deep understanding of Kubernetes Controllers, distributed systems, and cloud‑native architectures
Hands‑on familiarity with Kubernetes and container‑based platforms
Able to collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced high-performance environment.
Knowledge and expertise in software engineering methodologies and practices for full software development process, including coding standards, code reviews, build process, CI/CD, testing, and operations.
Working experience in Agile software development methodology.
Demonstrated ability in mentoring and developing people.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Demonstrated excellence in all written communications.
Qualification
Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience; or equivalent experience.
1+ years of prior experience in managing / leading team of software engineers preferred
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.
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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.
