F5
Principal, GRC Automation and Cyber Risk
Seattle, USA · Principal
Sponsorship not specified$53k-$800kDetected 35 days ago
PythonFastAPIAPI DevelopmentKafkaRabbitMQPandasNumPyAirflowData AnalysisLLMsCybersecurityLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- Why This Role Matters This role is foundational to advancing the organization's GRC maturity by reducing friction, increasing signal, and enabling leadership to make faster, better-informed risk decisions.
- It is a highly visible engineering leadership position with direct impact on executive confidence, audit outcomes, and enterprise risk posture.
- The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience across cybersecurity, risk management, GRC, or security architecture roles - with at least 3-5 years in a hands-on engineering or software development capacity.
- Master's degree in a related field.
- Experience with FAIR or quantitative risk methods.
- Hands-on experience with Agentic AI development - building and deploying autonomous agents for task automation, decision support, or workflow orchestration.
- Experience with Python data and automation libraries (pandas, NumPy, FastAPI, Celery, Airflow, etc.).
- Experience with API gateway tooling, integration platforms (e.g., MuleSoft, Boomi, Workato), or message broker systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
- Hands-on experience with AI, data analytics, or workflow automation applied to GRC use cases.
- Required
- Proven API development and integration experience, including designing, building, and consuming APIs in enterprise environments.
- Demonstrated experience automating or scaling GRC, risk, or compliance programs using enterprise platforms.
- Strong experience partnering with cross-functional technical and business teams.
- Preferred
- Familiarity with LLM orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar).
Skills
- Expertise designing and automating workflows within ServiceNow IRM or comparable GRC platforms.
- Ability to translate abstract frameworks into practical, automated, and scalable implementations.
- Strong systems thinking, connecting people, process, technology, and data.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level storytelling.
- Abilities
- Operate comfortably at both strategic and hands-on engineering levels.
- Influence without authority in a highly matrixed environment.
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Risk Management, or related field.
- GRC Automation & Platform Architecture
- Cyber Risk Quantification & Decision Enablement
- Demonstrated Python programming proficiency applied to automation, data processing, tooling, or security use cases.
- Demonstrated systems integration experience, connecting GRC, security, cloud, or enterprise systems at scale.
Compensation
- $167,200.00 - $250,800.00
- 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.
Benefits
- https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits.
- F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.
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