Senior Architect, Distributed Cloud
F5 Networks · San Jose, CA
About this role
F5 Networks is hiring a senior-level Solutions Architect in the software engineering function based in San Jose, CA. The posting calls out experience with Docker, Networking, Agile, SaaS and roughly 12+ years of relevant work. Compensation is listed at $268,800–$403,200 per year.
- Role
- Solutions Architect
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- San Jose, CA
- Experience
- 12+ years
- Posted
- May 4, 2026
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Job description
from F5 Networks careersAt 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.
F5 Distributed Cloud is looking for a Sr Architect to lead the architectural vision, strategy, and execution across Distributed Cloud Application Delivery Products. This is a senior leadership role responsible for ensuring scalability, security, performance, and agility across all technical domains of the service—CDN, DNS, MCN, and Load Balancing.
You will:
- Set long-term architectural direction, guiding major technology choices and innovation areas.
- Influence and shape technical strategy.
- Oversee architectural governance, ensuring design consistency, risk management, and scalability across teams and services.
- Establish architectural guardrails and principles for service isolation, zero trust, multi-region resilience, performance, and developer velocity.
- Drive cross-functional alignment among product, security, infrastructure, SRE, and development teams to ensure coherent, secure, and customer-driven architecture.