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.
Are you passionate about empowering technology professionals, developers, DevOps, and Platform Engineering teams through authentic community interaction and compelling technical content?
F5 is seeking a Community Evangelist. In this role, you’ll craft engaging presentations, technical tutorials, workshops, sample code, and videos that highlight real-world use cases, while representing F5 at industry conferences and virtual events. You'll represent the entirety of F5's platform including BIG-IP, NGINX, Distributed Cloud and platform operational tooling.
Blending deep technical expertise with storytelling and community building, you’ll play a pivotal role in keeping F5 top-of-mind for our core audiences. You’ll explore intersections with emerging technologies like AI, helping users unlock new possibilities. If you're excited to champion a widely adopted technology and make a meaningful impact across a vibrant global user community, we’d love to hear from you.
Primary Responsibilities
- Represent F5 at conferences and virtual events, showcasing demos and connecting with users in authentic conversation.
- Engage with users on F5's community forums by publishing technical thought-leadership content and actively responding to technical questions.
- Build relationships with industry thought leaders, influencers, analysts, and open-source communities to strengthen F5's communities.
- Create and deliver deep-dive technical posts, workshops, videos, and tutorials that illustrate practical use cases.
- Develop and maintain sample configurations, code and reference apps that help users get started quickly.
- Act as a bridge between F5's communities, industry communities and internal teams—actively gather user feedback and feature requests to help shape product requirements and influence the roadmap.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- 8+ years of experience in systems engineering, software engineering or developer/DevOps open source tooling roles in related technologies.
- At least 3–5 years in sales engineering, Field CTO, developer advocacy, developer relations, or similar external-facing technical roles.
- **Technical Depth: **Hands-on experience with proxy technologies such as F5 BIG-IP, NGINX, Kubernetes networking contructs. DevOps experience with CI/CD pipeline, APIs, python and automation. Familiarity with AI, MCP, web application security and authentication technologies. Ability to quickly dive deep into brand new technologies.
- Evangelism Expertise: Proven ability to tell stories that resonate with engineers, developers, Cloud Architects and technical decision makers through talks, workshops, content, demos, or community building.
- Scalable Mindset: Experience packaging technical solutions into reusable assets (configurations, code samples, workshops, demos) rather than one-off implementations.
- **Strong Communicator: **Ability to translate between deep technical detail and executive-level outcomes. Skilled at articulating solutions to real-world problems at scale.
- Ability to effectively lead & own project initiatives independently.
- Great teamwork, collaboration, and interpersonal skills, working across a global organization.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills including public presentations.
- Must be willing to travel extensively to attend technical conferences and represent F5 at industry events.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in systems engineering, software engineering or developer/DevOps open source tooling roles.
- At least 3–5 years in sales engineering, Field CTO, developer advocacy, developer relations, or similar external-facing technical roles.
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.
The annual base pay for this position is: $193,600.00 - $290,400.00
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.
_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. _
Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or** @myworkday.com)****.**
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.