Senior Solutions Engineer - SLED - So. California

The Senior Solutions Engineer (SE) within the State, Local Government, and Higher Education (SLED) vertical at F5 plays a critical role at the intersection of sales and technology. This position partners closely with customers supporting essential public services, where application availability and security are mission-critical.

As a trusted technical advisor, the SE supports the sales organization by translating F5’s portfolio into scalable, secure solutions aligned to complex customer architectures. This role requires strong technical depth, strategic thinking, and the ability to clearly articulate solutions both conceptually and visually to technical and executive audiences.

Core focus areas include application delivery, data and network security, and ensuring high availability across modern, distributed environments.

What you’ll do:

• Communicate F5’s strategy and value aligned to customer business outcomes
• Deliver technical sales activities including presentations, solution design, demos, and POCs
• Qualify opportunities and map customer organizational and technical stakeholders
• Partner with account teams to drive deals by engaging technical decision-makers
• Act as a trusted advisor to validate requirements and guide solution adoption
• Provide consistent, high-quality customer engagement across the lifecycle
• Collaborate across teams to share expertise and support strategic opportunities
• Lead design and positioning of F5 Distributed Cloud solutions for secure, cloud-native architectures
• Advise on API security strategies to protect and scale customer environments

• Experience in F5 Products, including BIG-IP, NGINX, and Distributed Cloud Services
• Advanced knowledge of application delivery controllers and TCP/IP networking
• Knowledge in application authentication methods, such as SAML, OAUTH, OIDC, JWT
• Knowledge in modern applications delivery methods with microservices
• Experience in advanced security and infrastructure operations. Understanding challenges in production environments, and how to solve them.
• Curiosity and work in industry trends and challenges that include AI and PQC

What you’ll bring:

• 5+ years of related industry experience
• BS/BA or equivalent work experience
• Familiarity/experience with F5 or similar industry solution deployment is a plus
• Experience and backgrounds in security, network, and/or infrastructure engineering
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills required
• Ability to collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced, high-performance environment

The annual base pay for this position is: $163,400.00 - $245,000.00

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. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

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.