Senior Architect, Distributed Cloud
F5
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Jose • California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $268,800 - $403,200 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
Cloud
About the role
- Lead architectural vision, strategy, and execution across the distributed SaaS platform
- Influence and shape the technical strategy across networking, service discovery, workload orchestration
- Oversee architectural governance for design consistency and risk management
- Establish architectural guardrails and principles for service isolation and performance
- Drive cross-functional alignment among product, security, infrastructure, and development teams
- Collaborate with teams to define scalable and secure designs
- Mentor senior architects and technical leads
- Represent Distributed Cloud architecture to executive stakeholders and customers
Requirements
- 12+ years in architecture leadership roles
- 5+ years in a Chief Architect or Principal Architect capacity
- Proven experience designing and operating multi-tenant SaaS services
- Deep technical expertise in CDN, edge computing, routing, load balancing, DDoS mitigation
- Understanding of containers and orchestration technologies
- Broad understanding of coding and programming languages
- Extensive knowledge of the software development process
- Excellent understanding of design patterns and architectural styles
- Proficient knowledge of agile software operation and development designs
Benefits
- Incentive compensation
- Bonus
- Restricted stock units
- Benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
architectural visionservice discoveryworkload orchestrationmulti-tenant SaaS servicesCDNedge computingroutingload balancingDDoS mitigationcontainers
Soft skills
leadershipinfluencecollaborationmentoringcross-functional alignment