Engineering Manager, 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. 
 

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.

Position Summary: 

Join F5 Inc. as a Senior Manager primary in-charge of team’s delivery, product growth and scale. As a key technical influencer, you will play a pivotal role in setting the organization's technical direction, contributing to major software subsystems, and mentoring other engineers on their technical growth. 

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Delivery Ownership: Ownership of deliverables on time with high quality. Work closely with stakeholders (PLM’s, Architects, Leads) across the organization to ensure timely & smooth delivery.   

• Planning: Plan the tasks, identify priorities, and allocate to the team. Work with the team track the progress regularly. Remove blockers for the team. 

• Collaborative Scope Definition: Regularly assist Architects and Principal Engineers, Engineers in defining project scope and estimating efforts, demonstrating a collaborative approach to project management. 

• Innovative Solutions: Work closely with Architects to devise and develop new solutions, particularly those involving cross-module dependencies. 

• Product Design Detailing: Regularly detail all aspects of product design, ensuring alignment with the technical architectural framework. 

• Performance Optimization: Review product architecture, identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks and other systemic limitations. 

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Liaise with cross-functional teams to ensure comprehensive project delivery, fostering a collaborative work environment. 

• Mentorship: Act as a manager for team members, promoting their growth and development within the team. Have regular 1:1’s and team meetings with members and motivate them.   

• Customer Engagement: Engage with customers to address escalations, devise solutions, and collaborate with Product Management to define and deliver product solutions. 

• Business Translation: Translate business requirements into system design strategies, defining high-level functional and physical design elements. 

• Collaborative Leadership: Demonstrate collaboration by promoting others’ ideas, influencing teams, and contributing to overall team success.  

• Integration Opportunities: Identify opportunities for integration, working across teams and organizations to coordinate the re-use of technology and facilitate integration. 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: 

• Technical Proficiency: Strong skills in C/C++/Golang (at least one of these) <