Director Engineering, Cloud Control Plane

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.

Director Software Engineering, F5 Distributed Cloud Control Plane

Why do you want to join our team?

Life at F5 is never dull. We are constantly identifying industry trends and disruptions, then innovating to get ahead of future customer needs—creating application services that help the world’s leading organizations deliver their critical business apps faster and with the highest levels of flexibility, security, performance, and support.

But our success isn’t driven solely by what we do. We also care deeply about how we do it. At F5, our culture is how we live, every single day. And it’s producing extraordinary results—not only for our customers, but also for our employees. We understand that your life is about more than just work, so we’re committed to a culture that supports your whole life.

F5 Distributed Cloud has innovated a consistent, cloud-native environment that can be deployed across multiple public clouds and edge sites — a distributed cloud platform. Within this SaaS-based offering, F5XC integrates a broad range of services that have normally been siloed across many point products and network or cloud providers. The solution is designed to provide a single way to view security, operations and management components.

Position Summary

Directs an organization in the planning, organizing, development, implementing, testing, and maintaining of product deliverables through the product lifecycle. This position coordinates with the senior leaders in Product Development and with Product Management to define product roadmaps and strategic directions. Provides technical direction for product development techniques and construction.

This position is responsible for F5 Distributed Cloud’s Control Plane. This work entails driving the constant evolution of our globally distributed control plane and enabling F5’s products to run everywhere at scale.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of critical platform capabilities for the F5 Distributed Cloud including control  plane, cloud networking and developer tooling. 
• Employee management including but not limited to sourcing, interviewing and hiring candidates for open positions, onboarding, establishing goals, assigning or delegating work, providing on-the-job training, giving guidance to staff, conducting performance evaluations, approving paid time-off (PTO), developing performance improvement plans, and taking disciplinary action.
• Set technical and strategic direction for Product Technologies Teams and Sr. Managers
• Defines department policies.
• Acts as a mentor and trains management staff in people management.
• Develops and modifies PTG processes and methods; focus on continuous improvement.
• Directs a group of managers involved in the creation of a variety of products.
• Facilitates communication upward and across project teams.
• Develops and manages operating budgets.
• Develop and execute Product Technologies Group strategies that fulfill global market criteria and F5 corporate strategies.
• Develop successful working relationship with customers, OEMs, Channel partners, and 3rd party vendors to ensure quality of services and deliverables, timely project completion, and company financial gains.
• Researches, analyzes, and monitors the technology industry to capitalize on opportunities to minimize competitive activity and advancement.
• Represent department as needed: including project teams, task forces, audits, business or technical meetings with internal or external groups.
• Participate in continuous self-education in Engineering field (i.e., methodologies, tools) to keep abreast of industry direction and standards
• Responsible for upholding F5’s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Experience delivering SaaS and the oper