Jobs at F5

Leads 0-to-1 product strategy, ecosystem integrations, and secure deployment architecture for an AI security portfolio. Partners with foundation model providers, design customers, and forward deployed engineers to develop secure AI gateways, MCP integrations, agentic identity controls, runtime guardrails, prompt defenses, red-teaming pipelines, and DLP capabilities. Translates complex enterprise deployment challenges into platform requirements and product roadmaps while communicating technical security strategies to enterprise executives.

Build, integrate, operate, and maintain security monitoring and auditing systems for F5 Distributed Cloud. Collaborate across security, engineering, operations, compliance, and business teams to define monitoring and alerting needs. Improve visibility, incident response, availability, and forensics capabilities; manage vulnerabilities and DevSecOps strategies; and support incident response and forensic investigations across large-scale distributed cloud systems.

Leads end-to-end planning and execution of large-scale marketing events, trade shows, conferences, and hybrid experiences. Manages timelines, budgets, vendors, production, sponsorships, booth execution, lead tracking, and ROI reporting. Collaborates with product marketing, field marketing, demand generation, creative, sales, agencies, and external partners to deliver impactful events that strengthen brand visibility, engage audiences, and influence pipeline.

Leads end-to-end planning and execution of large-scale marketing events, conferences, trade shows, and hybrid experiences. Manages project timelines, budgets, vendors, sponsorships, booth production, lead tracking, and ROI reporting. Collaborates with marketing, sales, creative, and demand-generation teams to deliver engaging events aligned with business goals. Requires strong stakeholder management, operational discipline, marketing technology expertise, and willingness to travel internationally and domestically.

Build and productionize AI-powered enterprise applications, agentic systems, RAG platforms, integrations, and developer productivity tools. Lead rapid prototyping, AI platform adoption, CI/CD, observability, evaluation, and responsible AI practices. Integrate Salesforce, Oracle, ServiceNow, Zendesk, and other business systems while defining engineering standards and mentoring engineers. Translate GTM, RevOps, and customer experience needs into measurable technical solutions.

Leads 0-to-1 product strategy, ecosystem integrations, and secure deployment architecture for an AI security portfolio. Owns partnerships with foundation model providers, governs MCP gateways, agentic identity, guardrails, prompt shields, and red-teaming systems. Works with forward-deployed engineers and enterprise design partners to architect complex AI deployments, troubleshoot production implementations, and translate field requirements into product and model roadmaps.

Design, develop, and operate highly available platform security services for a distributed Kubernetes-based cloud platform. Build authentication, authorization, certificate, secret, and key-management capabilities using primarily Golang. Deploy services across multi-cloud and edge environments, participate in threat modeling and compliance readiness, collaborate with product and SRE teams, and mentor junior engineers.

Leads the architecture and technical strategy for F5’s AI Security and Delivery Platform. Designs high-performance control plane and data plane systems using Go, C, and Rust; integrates runtime protection, prompt and response scanning, model serving, vector stores, and AI orchestration. Leads Kubernetes-native, multi-cloud, and hybrid-cloud platform architecture, while partnering with executives, product managers, and engineering teams on technical specifications and execution.

Leads hands-on design, development, and deployment of F5’s AI Security and Delivery Platform. Builds high-performance control and data plane components using Go, C, and Rust; develops Kubernetes-native operators, CRDs, proxy plugins, security controls, traffic management, and observability capabilities across multi-cloud environments. Provides technical mentorship, conducts architecture reviews, drives engineering standards, and partners with product and platform teams to deliver production-ready releases.

Leads the architecture, strategy, and execution of F5’s AI Security and Delivery Platform. Designs high-performance control plane and data plane systems using Go, C, and Rust; integrates AI lifecycle capabilities; develops Kubernetes-native, multi-cloud infrastructure; and drives secure traffic routing, application delivery, and platform strategy across engineering, product, and executive teams.

Leads full-cycle recruitment for technical sales roles, including sourcing, interviewing, offer negotiation, and onboarding support. Partners with Sales and GTM hiring managers, develops targeted pipelines, advises on talent markets and compensation, maintains ATS records, and reports recruiting metrics. The role requires strong technical sales recruiting expertise, sourcing proficiency, stakeholder communication, negotiation, and the ability to manage multiple requisitions under aggressive timelines.

Owns the global services product marketing function and end-to-end go-to-market strategy for F5 Professional Services, Customer Support, Education, Managed, SOC, and Subscription Services. Responsibilities include establishing operating models and KPIs, developing positioning and messaging, shaping packaging and pricing, driving services attach and renewals, integrating services into platform launches, conducting market research, enabling sales and partners, and supporting demand generation. The role requires executive storytelling, cross-functional influence, and measurement of marketing impact on pipeline, bookings, retention, and customer outcomes.

Leads and mentors an AI Security product management team while personally owning strategic product areas. Drives AI security product vision, lifecycle execution, pricing, packaging, sales enablement, customer advisory, and partnerships with model providers and design customers. Oversees solutions involving AI gateways, MCP gateways, agentic identity, guardrails, and automated red-teaming. Requires extensive enterprise cybersecurity product management experience, AI security expertise, people leadership, commercial acumen, and a technical degree.

Leads the engineering organization responsible for F5’s OpenTelemetry-based AI Data Fabric. Owns the platform’s strategy, roadmap, architecture, reliability, security, privacy, cost efficiency, vendor relationships, and multi-cloud expansion. Builds and develops engineering managers, drives predictable delivery, establishes SLOs, oversees incident response, and ensures data quality and platform contracts support AI/ML, analytics, data engineering, and catalog teams.

Leads F5’s enterprise incident response and cyber crisis management program, coordinating high-severity cyber and product security incidents from detection through recovery and post-incident review. Owns response governance, playbooks, metrics, executive reporting, tabletop exercises, and operational improvements. Provides technical leadership across cloud, identity, endpoint, application, API, Kubernetes, AI, and product security environments while coordinating engineering, legal, privacy, communications, customer support, and business stakeholders.

Leads complex enterprise SaaS and cloud transactions, translating product architecture and security requirements into commercial agreements. Partners with product, security, privacy, sales, and executive teams on data processing, privacy, cybersecurity, and regulatory commitments. Manages two contract managers, develops negotiation playbooks, standardizes global contracting practices, resolves escalations, and improves deal velocity while balancing legal and commercial risk.

Own end-to-end drafting, redlining, and negotiation of complex SaaS, cloud, technology, vendor, and commercial agreements. Partner with Sales, Procurement, Finance, Product, Information Security, and Legal teams to execute deals, manage contract pipelines, assess risk, and provide contracting guidance. Develop playbooks, templates, workflows, and CLM processes while improving metrics, automation, AI-assisted review, and stakeholder training.

Own end-to-end drafting, redlining, and negotiation of complex commercial agreements, especially SaaS, cloud, technology, vendor, and procurement contracts. Partner with Sales, Finance, Procurement, Product, Information Security, and Legal teams to execute deals, manage contract pipelines, assess risk, and provide contracting guidance. Develop playbooks, templates, fallback clauses, CLM workflows, metrics, AI-enabled automation, and stakeholder training to improve contracting efficiency.

Own F5’s enterprise customer experience AI strategy, roadmap, governance, and delivery. Re-architect customer journeys using generative and agentic AI, establish standards for evaluation, security, privacy, oversight, and responsible deployment, and make build-versus-buy decisions. Prototype solutions, define technical requirements, drive adoption, measure operational and customer outcomes, and present recommendations to executives. The role spans go-to-market, service, self-service, renewal, partner, and internal CX workflows.

Leads organization-wide engineering process standards, operating cadence, workflow design, governance, audits, KPI development, and tool integration. Partners with Product, Engineering, Technical Program Management, and technology teams to embed scalable processes into Jira, Confluence, internal platforms, and BI systems. Acts as a strategic advisor to engineering leadership, drives change adoption, and builds a distributed Process Engineering team spanning tooling product management, internal UX, and process/data audit.