Engineering Manager, Distributed Cloud (Information Technology)
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Position Summary:
Join F5 Inc. as a Senior Manager primary in-charge of team's delivery, product growth and scale. As a key technical influencer, you will play a pivotal role in setting the organization's technical direction, contributing to major software subsystems, and mentoring other engineers on their technical growth.
Primary Responsibilities:
Delivery Ownership: Ownership of deliverables on time with high quality. Work closely with stakeholders (PLM's, Architects, Leads) across the organization to ensure timely & smooth delivery.
Planning: Plan the tasks, identify priorities, and allocate to the team. Work with the team track the progress regularly. Remove blockers for the team.
Collaborative Scope Definition: Regularly assist Architects and Principal Engineers, Engineers in defining project scope and estimating efforts, demonstrating a collaborative approach to project management.
Innovative Solutions: Work closely with Architects to devise and develop new solutions, particularly those involving cross-module dependencies.
Product Design Detailing: Regularly detail all aspects of product design, ensuring alignment with the technical architectural framework.
Performance Optimization: Review product architecture, identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks and other systemic limitations.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Liaise with cross-functional teams to ensure comprehensive project delivery, fostering a collaborative work environment.
Mentorship: Act as a manager for team members, promoting their growth and development within the team. Have regular 1:1's and team meetings with members and motivate them.
Customer Engagement: Engage with customers to address escalations, devise solutions, and collaborate with Product Management to define and deliver product solutions.
Business Translation: Translate business requirements into system design strategies, defining high-level functional and physical design elements.
Collaborative Leadership: Demonstrate collaboration by promoting others' ideas, influencing teams, and contributing to overall team success.
Integration Opportunities: Identify opportunities for integration, working across teams and organizations to coordinate the re-use of technology and facilitate integration.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Technical Proficiency: Strong skills in C/C++/Golang (at least one of these) are necessary.
Expertise: Knowledge and experience in internet proxy technologies, Linux systems, and performance engineering is a plus.
Networking background: Well-versed Layer2 – Layer7 networking principles with proficiency in working deeply in L4/L7.
Kubernetes Proficiency: Well-versed in Kubernetes environments, capable of navigating and leveraging their capabilities.
Project Leadership: Capable of delivering projects, with a proven record of accomplishment of leading complex product technologies from concept through release.
Problem-Solving Skills: Exceptional problem-solving and project management skills, thriving in a fast-paced, high-performance environment.
Communication Excellence: Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communication, ensuring effective collaboration and understanding across teams.
Qualifications:
Typically requires a minimum of 15+ years of related experience with a bachelor's degree; or 12 years and a master's degree; or a PhD with 9 years' experience; or equivalent experience.
with Minimum of 4 years of supervision/team leadership role.
Excellent organizational agility and communication skills throughout the organization.
Environment:
Freedom and Learning: Enjoy a work environment that encourages freedom, continuous learning, and ownership.
Mentorship: Benefit from great mentors with solid backgrounds in various areas, eager to contribute to your professional development.
Team Collaboration: Join a great team where you will feel at home from day one, fostering a positive and supportive workplace culture.
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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.
The annual base pay for this position is: $173,694.00 - $260,542.00F5 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.
