Director of Engineering, Platform Security

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.

F5 Distributed Cloud Platform is a world class, mission critical and highly reliable platform serving a global customer base. Our customers depend on us to keep their business highly available and secure around the planet. 

We are rapidly expanding our platform in many dimensions – global footprint, infrastructure, performance, low latency etc., We are looking for a hands-on, driven, results oriented Engineering Director to lead our Platform Security organization.  

This organization is responsible for the build and life cycle management of XC platform with Secure first mindset. We build, engineer and evolve systems, tools and practices to ensure our Distributed Cloud is always protected from code to traffic.  

Responsibilities   

• Secure Bootstrap of the Distributed Cloud Platform 

• Engineer Server to Server and User to Server secure communication of the services and protection of the sensitive assets. 

• Engineer systems and tools to secure communication between On Prem and Public Clouds. 

• Evolve Distributed Cloud to meet federally regulated standards – FedRamp, IL5, HIPAA. 

• Build and Operate systems for data protection, identifying and mitigating threats from supply chains, external attacks. 

• Scale the Distributed Cloud platform in a secure way to fuel the business growth with industry leading availability.  

• Design and implement software systems that are highly distributed, concurrent and reliable to manage the lifecycle of our Distributed Cloud. 

• Implement fully tested code with Observability and Telemetry for Day 2 operations. 

•  Work closely with Product, Platform Services and SRE Engineers to make this system scale to the needs of business. 

• Innovate by bringing the best of ideas to life and help business grow.  

• Learn and share your ideas and practices, inside and outside the company, to uplift the entire engineering community. 

• Establish goals, raise the bar, coach the teams and deliver exceptional results. 

Required Qualifications   

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience (18+ years).   

• Strong foundational understanding of systems, Linux Kernel, TCP/IP stack, K8s. 

• Proficiency in Cloud native development and programming languages such as GO, Rust and Python. 

• Must demonstrate deep understanding of K8s machinery and have experience deploying Models (CRDs), Controller