Sr Architect, Distributed Cloud

F5 Inc

Remote Actively hiring
San Jose Posted 163 days ago $268,800–$403,200 / year
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TL;DR

F5 Distributed Cloud seeks a Sr Architect to lead the architectural vision and strategy across its distributed SaaS platform, focusing on scalability, security, performance, and agility in areas like CDN functionality, WAAP/WAF/DDoS protection, traffic management, orchestration, and global observability. This senior leadership role involves setting long-term technical direction, influencing technology choices, overseeing governance to ensure consistency and risk management, and driving cross-functional alignment among product, security, infrastructure, SRE, and development teams. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in architecture leadership roles, with deep expertise in multi-tenant, multi-region SaaS services, CDN, edge computing, routing, load balancing, DDoS mitigation, application layer security, containers, orchestration technologies, coding languages, and agile software development processes.

Skills

CDN DDoS MVP SaaS Kubernetes CI/CD Python Go Rust PostgreSQL Redis AWS Azure GCP Terraform Prometheus Grafana Zero Trust Microservices Docker

What you'll do

  • Set long-term architectural direction and guide major technology choices.
  • Oversee architectural governance to ensure design 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 technical leads to foster architecture talent.

What we're looking for

  • 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.
  • Expertise in CDN, edge computing, routing, load balancing, DDoS mitigation, and application layer security.
  • Deep understanding of containers, orchestration technologies, coding languages, and software development processes.
  • Strong proficiency in design patterns, architectural styles, agile software operation and development designs.
  • Excellent communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills to mentor architects and align cross-functional teams.

Market check

Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $179k
This role $336k
$93k most similar roles pay here $436k

This role pays more than 96% of similar roles. Most pay $142,400–$215,462 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $336k versus about $179k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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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