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.
Overview:
We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Development Engineer (Sr. SDE) to lead the architecture, development, and delivery of modern digital experiences for a global audience. This role combines deep full stack engineering expertise with AI-driven software development practices, enabling teams to accelerate innovation through intelligent automation and generative AI solutions.
The ideal candidate is a technical leader with a proven track record of driving architecture decisions, leading complex engineering initiatives, and mentoring engineers. They will partner closely with Product, Marketing, Data, Platform, and Security teams to build scalable, secure, and high-performing customer-facing applications while helping shape the organization's technical strategy and AI adoption roadmap. They will also integrate enterprise SaaS platforms and third-party services to deliver connected customer experiences and business workflows.
The successful candidate brings strong ownership, technical excellence, and the ability to influence engineering decisions across teams and business functions.
Software Engineering & Architecture:
Lead the architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, and operation of highly scalable customer-facing web applications and digital platforms.
Own end-to-end technical solutions for complex, cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple systems, teams, and business domains.
Define and drive architectural standards, technology strategies, and platform modernization efforts focused on scalability, reliability, security, maintainability, and performance.
Lead the evaluation, selection, and adoption of modern engineering frameworks, tools, and cloud-native technologies.
Establish and champion engineering best practices for software architecture, code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, and operational excellence.
Ensure solutions meet enterprise requirements for security, compliance, governance, and operational readiness.
AI-Augmented Software Development:
Incorporate AI-driven capabilities into software design, development, testing, documentation, code reviews, knowledge management, and operational processes.
Define standards and governance models for responsible AI development, data privacy, security, and regulatory compliance.
Generative AI Solutions & Agent Development:
Architect, design, and deliver AI-powered applications, copilots, intelligent assistants, and autonomous agents that improve customer and business outcomes.
Design advanced AI workflows utilizing prompt engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), orchestration frameworks, tool usage, memory management, and agent-based architectures.
Establish evaluation frameworks for AI quality, observability, reliability, governance, and performance measurement.
Influence engineering strategy, platform architecture, technical roadmaps, and organizational technology decisions.
Lead design reviews, architecture reviews, and technical discussions involving complex, cross-functional solutions.
Partner with Product Managers, UX Designers, Marketing teams, Data organizations, Security teams, and Engineering leaders to deliver high-impact business outcomes.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience designing, developing, and deploying Generative AI applications, copilots, assistants, or intelligent agents in production environments.
Experience designing, building, and consuming RESTful APIs, distributed systems, and service-oriented architectures.
Strong expertise in software architecture, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and large-scale system design.
Strong written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts, architecture decisions, and project status to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with digital experience platforms, content management systems, search platforms, and customer-facing web ecosystems.
Digital Experience & Marketing Technologies:
AI & Emerging Technologies:
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.
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.
