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.

Role Summary:

F5 is looking for an ambitious and technically skilled Software Engineering Manager to join our growing AI Security team. In this role, you will lead a multidisciplinary team of Frontend, Backend, and QA engineers tasked with delivering cutting-edge AI security features within F5's Guardrails and Red Team products. As a leader, you will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of scalable, high-performance, and secure solutions while empowering your team to excel and grow.

Your leadership will drive every aspect of the software development lifecycle, ensuring that the architecture is scalable, the code is robust, and the team operates effectively and efficiently. You will partner with Product Management, UX Designers, and Data Scientists to align technical solutions with F5’s strategic goals and deliver innovative, customer-focused results.

Our stack leverages modern technologies, including Vue 3 (TypeScript), Python (FastAPI), and Playwright for automated quality testing.

Key Responsibilities:

Delivery and Execution

Oversee the end-to-end delivery of features across the AI Security team’s product offerings, ensuring projects are completed with high quality, performance, and within scheduled timelines.

Continuously improve development processes, ensuring the team operates within an efficient and scalable Agile workflow.

Define and track project milestones, proactively identifying and mitigating risks to avoid roadblocks.

Leadership and Team Development

Manage, mentor, and coach a multidisciplinary engineering team, fostering a culture of continuous learning, career growth, and high performance.

Provide guidance and technical oversight in solving complex engineering challenges, empowering team members to innovate.

Recruit, onboard, and scale the team effectively, supporting individual career development and ensuring alignment with F5’s business objectives.

Technical Oversight and Strategy

Collaborate with Product Managers, UX Designers, and Data Scientists to shape product vision, ensuring it aligns with both technical feasibility and customer needs.

Provide high-level architectural guidance, ensuring scalable, secure, and high-performing systems.

Lead discussions around frontend and backend architecture, design patterns, and web application scaling strategies.

Partnership and Collaboration

Engage cross-functionally with Product, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Support stakeholders, translating ideas into actionable technical solutions.

Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, presenting complex technical concepts in a way that ensures alignment and understanding.

Quality and Process Efficiency

Ensure high technical standards by overseeing code reviews, testing strategies, and deployment processes to ensure robust and reliable systems.

Actively contribute to the adoption of DevOps best practices, driving automation and reliability in F5's product delivery processes.

Promote innovation in the full software development lifecycle by regularly evaluating and adopting new tools and methodologies.

Required Qualifications:

Leadership Experience

2-3 years of experience in an engineering management role, with a proven track record of effectively leading multidisciplinary teams in delivering software projects.

Experience in team scaling and recruitment, while building a collaborative and inclusive team culture.

Technical Background

8+ years of experience in Software Engineering, including extensive experience with frontend and backend web application delivery.

Architectural Expertise: Advanced knowledge of frontend/backend application architecture, design patterns, scalability, and performance tuning.

Proficiency in web frameworks such as Vue 3, React, FastAPI, or Django, with hands-on experience leading teams through large, scalable projects.

Agile and Process Focused

Proven ability to lead Agile workflows, managing sprints and ensuring product development stays on track.

Focused on improving process accuracy and reducing inefficiencies, driving accountability and structure in software delivery.

Communication Skills

Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders alike, ensuring alignment and clarity across the organization.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience building and maintaining SaaS and hosted applications, including scaling systems across global infrastructures.

Familiarity with security domains, AI-driven applications, and managing hybrid or remote teams across different time zones.

Proficiency in modern platform and infrastructure tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, or cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

Knowledge of automated testing frameworks such as Playwright or Selenium, and experience ensuring QA excellence within Agile teams.

Background in building and delivering AI-powered or security-focused products.

Why Join F5's AI Security Team?

Engage in solving complex, real-world problems in the exciting domain of AI security and cybersecurity, using cutting-edge technologies.

Lead a high-performing, multidisciplinary engineering team that values technical excellence, innovation, and collaboration.

Gain exposure to modern tech stacks, using state-of-the-art tools and frameworks to deliver reliable, scalable systems.

Shape the future of AI-driven security solutions by employing your leadership, technical expertise, and customer-first approach.

What Success Looks Like:

As a Software Engineering Manager – AI Security, success is defined by your ability to:

Deliver innovative and scalable features for F5's Guardrails and Red Team AI security products while achieving timely execution.

Build and sustain a highly motivated team, focused on fostering professional growth and delivering results at scale.

Partner effectively across functions, ensuring alignment of engineering solutions with customer needs and F5’s strategic vision.

Demonstrate technical leadership by ensuring product quality, process efficiency, and robust architecture to meet F5’s high standards.

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The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com.

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