Software Architect, ADSP SaaS Services

Overview

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.

As a Software Architect, you will partner with product, engineering, and operations teams to design, guide, and evolve F5’s ADSP SaaS Services systems. You will focus on ensuring our architecture supports scalability, security, performance, and innovation while enabling rapid delivery of new capabilities for our customers. This role demands both deep technical expertise and the ability to influence and align engineering efforts across multiple teams.

What You’ll Do

• Define and maintain the architecture roadmap for the Distributed Cloud platform, aligning with business goals and customer needs.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to ensure architecture decisions are implemented consistently across services and teams.
• Lead architectural reviews, make build vs. buy decisions, and establish technical standards for distributed, cloud-native systems.
• Partner with Product Management to evaluate new feature requests for architectural fit, feasibility, and scalability.
• Identify and resolve technical debt, ensuring long-term maintainability and flexibility of the platform.
• Drive adoption of best practices in API design, data modeling, security, observability, and reliability engineering.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend their adoption where they can deliver competitive advantage or operational efficiency.
• Mentor engineers and technical leads, fostering growth in distributed systems design and architecture skills.
• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements while enabling innovative solution design.

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Pay and benefits : The annual base pay for this position is $234,400.00 - $351,600.00. F5 maintains broad salary ranges to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, location, market conditions, products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range is as of the time of the 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 : https : / / www.f5.com / company / careers / benefits. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

Notes

The job description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

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 laws. F5 offers reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is voluntary. For accommodations, contact accommodations@f5.com.

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