Senior Security Engineer, AI & Automation Platform

F5 Networks, Inc; Warsaw (IN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

F5 Networks, Inc. is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for AI & Automation to design, review, and operate production-grade automation and AI capabilities that scale security operations.

You will join the SOPE team to build integrations, workflows, and agentic systems that empower Incident Response and Threat Intelligence. The role requires strong software and automation fundamentals, practical AI experience, and the judgement to safely deploy systems at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, security engineering, automation engineering, or related technical disciplines.
• Advanced proficiency in Python and GitLab CI/CD, including the ability to review, troubleshoot, and approve production automation pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment workflows.
• Demonstrated experience building and supporting API-driven integrations utilizing REST APIs, OAuth/token-based authentication, pagination, rate limiting, error handling, and service-to-service communications.
• Experience designing, developing, or operating AI-assisted, agentic, or LLM-powered solutions with a demonstrated ability to validate outputs, identify failure modes, and implement appropriate safeguards.
• Strong written communication skills with experience producing design documents, architecture decision records (ADRs), implementation plans, technical reviews, and collaborating effectively in asynchronous, distributed environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop production-grade automation and AI capabilities that reduce operational toil, improve security outcomes, and scale security operations workflows across the organization.
• Review and approve CI/CD pipelines, automation workflows, integrations, and AI-enabled systems that interact with production security platforms, incident management processes, and operational data.
• Build and maintain API-driven integrations across security technologies, cloud services, AI platforms, and operational tooling while ensuring reliability, security, and observability.
• Lead implementation of agentic and AI-assisted workflows that support investigation, enrichment, correlation, triage, and response activities while maintaining appropriate guardrails, auditability, and human oversight.
• Establish and promote engineering standards for automation development, testing, code review, change management, operational safety, and platform reliability.
• Partner with Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunting, and platform engineering teams to identify high-value use cases and deliver scalable automation and AI solutions.
• Evaluate and recommend AI, automation, and orchestration technologies by balancing innovation, risk, maintainability, operational impact, and long-term ownership.

Skills

Python

GitLab CI/CD

API integrations

AI-powered solutions

Security engineering

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

REST APIs

OAuth

Job description

F5 Networks, Inc. is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for AI & Automation to design, review, and operate production-grade automation and AI capabilities that scale security operations.

You will join the SOPE team to build integrations, workflows, and agentic systems that empower Incident Response and Threat Intelligence. The role requires strong software and automation fundamentals, practical AI experience, and the judgement to safely deploy systems at scale.