Senior Architect, Distributed Cloud

F5 Inc

Remote Actively hiring
San Jose Posted 30 days ago $268,800–$403,200 / year
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F5 Distributed Cloud seeks a Senior Architect to lead the architectural vision and strategy for its Application Delivery Products, encompassing CDN, DNS, MCN, and Load Balancing services. This role involves setting long-term technical direction, influencing strategic decisions, and overseeing governance to ensure scalability, security, and performance across all domains. The Sr Architect will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define secure and fault-tolerant designs, mentor senior architects, and represent the company’s architecture in executive forums. Key responsibilities include driving architectural reviews, leading software development projects, and ensuring operability and compliance. Ideal candidates have over 12 years of experience in architecture leadership roles, deep expertise in CDN, edge computing, and application layer security, hands-on coding skills, and knowledge of agile methodologies.

Skills

CDN DNS MCN Load Balancing DDoS mitigation application layer security Kubernetes Docker Python Go Ruby Java JavaScript Agile CI/CD AWS Azure GCP PostgreSQL MongoDB Cassandra Zero Trust Multi-region resilience

What you'll do

  • Set long-term architectural direction and guide major technology choices.
  • Oversee architectural governance to ensure consistency and risk management.
  • Establish guardrails for service isolation, zero trust, and multi-region resilience.
  • Drive cross-functional alignment among product, security, and development teams.
  • Mentor senior architects and foster technical leadership across the organization.

What we're looking for

  • Over 12 years of architecture leadership experience, with at least 5 years as a Chief or Principal Architect in global SaaS/cloud platforms.
  • Proven track record designing and operating multi-tenant, multi-region, highly available SaaS services globally.
  • Deep expertise in CDN, edge computing, routing, load balancing, DDoS mitigation, and application layer security.
  • Hands-on experience with coding, programming languages, containers, and orchestration technologies.
  • Extensive knowledge of software development processes, design patterns, and agile methodologies.
  • Strong communication, problem-solving, and mentoring skills for technical leadership.

Market check

Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $185k
This role $336k
$98k most similar roles pay here $436k

This role pays more than 99% of similar roles. Most pay $142,400–$227,975 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $336k versus about $185k for comparable roles.

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About F5 Inc

F5, Inc. is an American technology company specializing in application security, multi-cloud management, online fraud prevention, application delivery networking, application availability and performance, and network security, access, and authorization.

F5 Inc currently has 16 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $176,800–$259,800 across 16 roles with salary data.

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