F5 · 4 days ago
Sr Architect, Distributed Cloud
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$269K/yr - $403K/yr
12+ years expF5 is dedicated to creating a better digital world, empowering organizations to secure and run applications. The Sr Architect will lead the architectural vision and strategy for F5's distributed SaaS platform, focusing on scalability, security, and performance across various technical domains.
Consumer ElectronicsSaaSSecurityVirtualization
Responsibilities
Set long-term architectural direction, guiding major technology choices and innovation areas
Influence and shape technical strategy across networking, service discovery, workload orchestration, configuration management, and telemetry
Oversee architectural governance, ensuring design consistency, risk management, and scalability across teams and services
Establish architectural guardrails and principles for service isolation, zero trust, multi-region resilience, performance, and developer velocity
Drive cross-functional alignment among product, security, infrastructure, SRE, and development teams to ensure coherent, secure, and customer-driven architecture
Collaborate with product, SRE, and development teams to define scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant designs aligned with platform goals
Mentor senior architects and technical leads, growing architecture talent and fostering technical leadership across the organization
Represent Distributed Cloud architecture and capabilities to executive stakeholders, customers, and external forums
Ensure all components and systems are designed with operability, testability, compliance, and security as first principles
Work closely with product and development teams to ensure software and product architectures are developed in line with the vision and future direction of the company
Drive architectural reviews, design validations, and threat models to ensure operational, security, and scalability concerns are addressed early
Partner with management on driving product timelines
Lead technical due diligence, competitive assessments, and horizon scanning for new technologies and paradigms
Lead software development projects
Ensure the documenting and recording every aspect of Distributed Cloud
Planning, tracking and scheduling software deliverables
Ensure teams can identify problems within software systems and driving issues to resolution
Developing good working relationships with other employees and senior leadership
Qualification
Required
12+ years in architecture leadership roles, with 5+ years in a Chief Architect or Principal Architect capacity for a global SaaS or cloud platform
Proven experience designing and operating multi-tenant, multi-region, highly available SaaS services at global scale
Deep technical expertise in CDN, edge computing, routing, load balancing, DDoS mitigation, and application layer security
Understanding of containers and orchestration technologies
Broad understanding of coding and programming languages
Extensive knowledge of the software development process and corresponding technologies
Excellent understanding of design patterns and architectural styles
Proficient knowledge of the operation and development designs of agile software
Strong soft skills, including attention to detail, problem-solving and communication skills
Benefits
Incentive compensation
Bonus
Restricted stock units
Benefits
Company
F5 is a multi-cloud application services and security company that specializes in application security, performance, and delivery.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
Elliott Management Corp.
2020-11-08Post Ipo Equity
1999-06-04IPO
1998-09-24Series Unknown
Leadership Team
François Locoh-Donou
President and CEO
Kunal Anand
Chief Technology Officer
Recent News
2025-12-24
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