Engineering Manager, Cloud-Native Security

F5, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 286,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

RSUs

Job summary

F5, Inc. seeks a Software Engineering Manager to lead the development of cloud-native networking, security, and AI platforms. You will guide distributed teams, shape roadmaps, and ensure high-quality software from inception to operations.

The role emphasizes hands-on mentorship, architectural guidance, and cross-functional collaboration with product management, engineering, and international partners. Hybrid work is available within the U.S.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience with a bachelor’s or 6 years with a master’s; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience.
• Experience leading software engineers and mentoring teams.
• Experience building Kubernetes-native micro-services and cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Support, mentor, and coach your team; provide professional development.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver high-quality software.
• Advise on architecture, code design patterns, testing, and CI details.
• Own customer issues with timely fixes and root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with engineering and product leaders on roadmaps and requirements.
• Perform regular team evaluations to enable feedback.
• Identify hiring needs and act as hiring manager for engineers.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence and collaboration.
• Establish best practices for quality, security, and operations.
• Drive modernization and capacity upgrades.

Skills

Kubernetes

eBPF observability

Cloud-native architectures

Mentoring

Stakeholder management

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

gRPC

Protobufs

eBPF

Job description

F5, Inc. seeks a Software Engineering Manager to lead the development of cloud-native networking, security, and AI platforms. You will guide distributed teams, shape roadmaps, and ensure high-quality software from inception to operations.

The role emphasizes hands-on mentorship, architectural guidance, and cross-functional collaboration with product management, engineering, and international partners. Hybrid work is available within the U.S.