Software Architect, Distributed Cloud

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. 
 

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Ram Durairaj: 

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.