Architect and build agentic experiences: Design and implement end-to-end agentic workflows (planning, tool-use, memory, retrieval, execution, and feedback loops) that are secure, observable, and reliable in production.
Platform-grade implementation: Deliver services/APIs that enable agentic capabilities on a multi-tenant SaaS platform, with strong guarantees around latency, scale, resiliency, and manageability.
Safety, security, and trust: Build guardrails for agentic behavior (policy enforcement, prompt/tool security, secrets handling, auditability, abuse prevention, and data boundaries) aligned with F5’s security mission.
Evaluation and quality: Define and automate evaluation strategies for agentic systems (offline test suites, regression harnesses, golden tasks, telemetry-driven iteration, and failure-mode analysis).
Operational excellence: Own reliability—instrumentation, tracing, debugging, runbooks, incident response learnings, and continuous improvement for agentic services in production.
Cross-functional leadership: Partner with Product, UX, Security, SRE, and Engineering teams across geographies to define requirements, shape roadmaps, and deliver customer value.
Mentorship and influence: Raise engineering standards through design reviews, code reviews, technical guidance, and by modeling inclusive collaboration and ownership.

Typically requires 10+ years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree; or 7 + years with a master’s degree (or equivalent practical experience).
Proven experience designing highly available, scalable services with strong operational rigor (resiliency patterns, rate limiting, backpressure, multi-region considerations).
Expertise in one or more of Golang, Python, Java (or similar), with production-quality coding, testing, and API design practices.
Hands-on experience building agentic applications/services (tool orchestration, function calling/tool APIs, RAG patterns, memory strategies, planning/execution loops, and failure recovery).
Understanding of common risks and mitigations in agentic/LLM systems (prompt injection, data exfiltration, tool misuse, authorization boundaries, tenant isolation).
Experience with major cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP) and cloud-native architectures.
Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes (deployment patterns, image lifecycle, service networking, scaling strategies).
Git-based workflows, modern CI/CD, automated testing, and release discipline.
Hands-on experience with SQL and/or NoSQL technologies and designing data access patterns for scale and correctness.
Clear written/verbal communication; ability to align stakeholders, document decisions, and drive execution across teams.

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5’s differing products, industries, and lines of business.
You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits
F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

Senior Software Engineer – Agentic AI

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