Director of Software Development Engineering

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.

Position Summary:
 

We are looking for a Platform Security Engineering Director to lead a team dedicated to securing our platforms and products. In this role, you’ll oversee the implementation of security certifications, architecture, and vulnerability management while driving both short-term initiatives and long-term improvement strategies. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and help shape the future of platform security. This is a unique opportunity to lead in a fast-paced environment where security and innovation go hand in hand. This position is responsible for supporting the evaluation and execution of current and future security projects.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Serves as the strategic vision for the PlatSec engineering team for F5’s products.
• Is an active member of Engineering leadership team, interfacing with F5’s security teams and supporting the goals of creating a stronger more integrated Security team.
• Leads tactical analysis of requirements and defines the design for new and modification of existing certifications and security initiatives.
• Assists Teams with project scope and estimating.
• Liaises with cross-functional teams to ensure that project is delivered in its entirety.
• Grows the security skills of the team.
• Engages with customers to address escalations and devise solutions.
• Engages with Product Management to drive detailed product requirements.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Expert Knowledge and extensive experience with Enterprise security initiatives – including federal certifications, security architectures, and vulnerability management.
• Experience designing and developing complex security initiatives from concept through release.
• Able to collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced high-performance environment.
• Regularly finds ways to communicate widely through discussions, white papers, publications and other.
• Regularly demonstrates collaboration by promoting others’ ideas, influencing others, and making teams successful.
• Regarded as technical lead by peers and management.
• Duties may require being on call periodically or working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends).  Duties may require the ability to travel via automobile or airplane, approximately 5% of the time spent traveling.
   

Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a master’s degree; or equivalent experience.
• One or more security certifications such as CISSP, CSSLP, GSEC, Security+, CISM, CEH, or OSCP is 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.

The annual base pay for this position is: $228,800.00 - $343,200.00

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice. 

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.