Engineering Manager – BIGIP Next for Kubernetes

About the job

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.

We are seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead the development of our next‑generation cloud‑native networking, security and AI platforms. This role will own the delivery of Kubernetes network Controller, product licensing workflows and AI-native software development to run across hybrid multi-cloud / on‑prem Kubernetes environments and public cloud platforms. You will lead an efficient team of engineers building high‑scale, high‑performance systems at the intersection of networking, security, cloud, and AI.

Primary Responsibilities:

- Support, mentor, and coach as well as provide professional development for your team. Collaborate across teams and deliver high-quality software to meet customer needs.

- Advise on the architecture, code patterns, testing, and continuous integration details.

- Take ownership of customer issues with timely fixes and provide proper RCA (Root Cause Analysis) to the wider group.

- Collaborate with leaders in engineering and product management on roadmap, strategy, coordinating dependencies, and establishing clear requirements to effectively meet delivery and quality commitments.

- Perform continuous team member evaluations to enable frequent feedback.

- Identify hiring needs and be the hiring manager for recruiting engineers.

- Motivate and foster a collaborative environment within your team, actively engaging with senior management and executives. Adopt a managerial approach that emphasizes support and empowerment for your teams, while also championing the cultivation of a positive and cohesive team culture.

- Establish best practices for software quality, reliability, security, and operational excellence

- Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and innovation Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

- Experience and passion for taking a leading role in building complex software systems, delivered successfully to customers.

- Experience building Kubernetes native micro-services leveraging gRPC, AS3, protobufs, helm etc.

- Deep understanding of Kubernetes Controllers, distributed systems, and cloud‑native architectures

- Hands‑on familiarity with Kubernetes and container‑based platforms

- Able to collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced high-performance environment.

- Knowledge and expertise in software engineering methodologies and practices for full software development process, including coding standards, code reviews, build process, CI/CD, testing, and operations.

- Working experience in Agile software development methodology.

- Demonstrated ability in mentoring and developing people.

- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

- Demonstrated excellence in all written communications. Qualification:

- Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience; or equivalent experience.

- 1+ years of prior experience in managing / leading team of software engineers preferred

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 .