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Solutions Engineer Lll (CA)

F5 · Field-CA · On-site

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About F5

Unified delivery & security for applications, APIs, & AI workloads across any infrastructure, trusted by 85% of the Fortune 500. Secure your digital ecosystem.

About the role

As a Solutions Engineer (SE) at F5, you will serve as a trusted technical architect and strategic advisor to Fortune 500 enterprises and fast-growing digital innovators. Working in close partnership with the Sales Director and Service Provider Team, your high-level objective is to design, champion, and sell modern F5 application delivery and security solutions across multi-cloud, hybrid, and edge environments to achieve allocated sales targets. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Pre-Sales / Technical Consulting Experience: 5+ years of experience in pre-sales engineering, systems engineering, technical consulting, or an equivalent customer-aligned systems/solutions architecture role
  • Enterprise Track Record: Proven experience supporting and building trust with large enterprise accounts, particularly within high-compliance or highly regulated industries (such as financial services)
  • Architectural Storytelling: Ability to connect deep technical capabilities to real-world business outcomes, building authentic trust with hands-on engineers and executive leaders alike
  • Cloud Experience: Prior experience with modern edge cloud/WAAP platforms, API gateway technologies, or hyperscaler cloud networking practices
  • AI Curiosity: Familiarity with securing or optimizing emerging AI workloads, LLM inference endpoints, or modern data services
More about this role

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.

As a Solutions Engineer (SE) at F5, you will serve as a trusted technical architect and strategic advisor to Fortune 500 enterprises and fast-growing digital innovators. Working in close partnership with the Sales Director and Service Provider Team, your high-level objective is to design, champion, and sell modern F5 application delivery and security solutions across multi-cloud, hybrid, and edge environments to achieve allocated sales targets.

Today, F5 secures and delivers over half of the world's application traffic. In this role, you will help shape the next chapter of global application infrastructure—protecting mission-critical workloads,...

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