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F5's NGINX Business Unit is seeking an accomplished and seasoned Senior Manager to oversee a team of software engineers primarily located in India. In this pivotal role, you will assume direct responsibility for the design, development, and sustainment of our commercial management planes within the NGINX product line. These solutions address tangible challenges that customers encounter while managing numerous NGINX plus and NGINX OSS instances deployed either on-premises or in public cloud environments. Furthermore, this role is expected to actively engage in recruitment efforts and play a key role in establishing and cultivating a high-performing team in India
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with a dedicated team of software developers and cultivate a culture of trust, collaboration, and ownership.
- Offer mentorship and expert guidance for the design, development, and sustainment of our NGINX management plane products
- Advise on the architecture, code patterns, testing and continuous integration details for areas your team works on
- Take ownership of customer issues with timely fixes and provide proper RCA (Root Cause Analysis) to the wider group.
- Collaborate with leaders in engineering and product management on roadmap, strategy, coordinating dependencies, and establishing clear requirements to effectively meet delivery and quality commitments.
- Support, mentor, and coach as well as provide professional development for your team. Collaborate across teams and deliver high quality software to meet customer needs
- Perform continuous team member evaluations to enable frequent feedback
- Identify hiring needs and be the hiring manager for recruiting engineers
- Motivate and foster a collaborative environment within your team, actively engaging with senior management and executives. Adopt a managerial approach that emphasizes support and empowerment for your teams, while also championing the cultivation of a positive and cohesive team culture.
Skills and Experience:
- Demonstrated expertise in constructing and leading geographically distributed teams.
- Strong background of Agile development, specifically minimum viable product-style software development approach both on-premises and in the SaaS environment.
- Background as a software engineer is critical with familiarity in backend platform engineering
- Familiarity with clouds, containers, and Kubernetes.
- Practical knowledge of large-scale distributed systems
- Experience developing software using continuous integration and delivery techniques
- Strong experience with load balancing and reverse proxy technology and concepts.
Qualifications:
- 7+ years of leading software teams
- 12+ years in technology overall
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent experience
The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.
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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 local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com.
