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Position Summary
Join a revolutionary team of Distributed Cloud Data platform, Analytics, Cloud service specialists to build core data system, analytics, telemetry, AI/Generative AI powered services at scale in the growing field of multi-cloud SaaS (Software as a Service), Security and Multi Cloud Networking solutions.
We are looking for a Sr Manger to join our Data platform and engineering team to accelerate data platform and data and telemetry missions in the F5 Distributed Cloud Platform Group.
This role plays a critical role in leading a data-centric, AI-first, and platform-first strategy, driving the design and development of scalable data systems and observability platforms for next-generation SaaS products.
Responsibilities
Foster a human-first engineering culture by leading with empathy, kindness, and integrity in day-to-day interactions and decision-making.
Create an environment of psychological safety for engineers. Promote collaboration across teams and functions and align stakeholders toward shared outcomes.
Lead and manage a team of engineers responsible for data platform strategy, building scalable data systems, and observability platforms for SaaS products.
Drive the architecture, design, and evolution of data pipelines, storage, and analytics
Drive observability strategies and performance monitoring of system
Design/develop/enhance data centric, AI/Gen AI powered services
Design/develop/enhance telemetry and metrics pipeline and services
Partner with product, security, SRE, to define platform capabilities, SLAs, and long-term roadmaps, translating business and product requirements into execution plans.
Mentor and grow engineers through coaching, technical guidance, performance management, and career development.
Required Qualifications
Be kind.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience (12+ years). Technical lead or technical management experience (7+ years).
Proficiency in Cloud native and programming languages such as GO, Rust, Java, Python.
Architecture and hands-on experience in data platform and data intelligence products.
Proficiency in data/ stream processing (e.g., Kafka, Pubsub, Dataflow,Vector, Spark, Flink), data warehouse and data lake (e.g., ClickHouse, StarRocks, Elasticsearch, Big Query, Iceberg, Delta Lake), analytics and AI platform (e.g. Databricks, Snowflake).
Experience in building data platforms at scale, with high performance and reliability.
Experience using ML/AI, Semantic search, Agentic, and Generative AI techniques in telemetry, platform, product growth or engineering productivity.
Experience in automation of data system, analytics pipeline across on Prem and Cloud.
Expertise in data model, schema registration and evolution, and compliance in data pipelines (e.g. GDPR, PII masking, encryption).
Experience with logs, metrics, Prometheus, Open Telemetry, Arrow, distributed tracing.
Experience with data system observability, monitoring, alerting.
Experience in SaaS multi-tenancy, metering & billing, telemetry.
Experience with container and orchestration, Kubernetes and Microservice.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and end to end debugging skills in data system and pipeline with extensive knowledge from network, and Infra technologies.
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.
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 [email protected].
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What We Do
F5 application services ensure that applications are always secure and perform the way they should—in any environment and on any device.
F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) powers applications from development through their entire life cycle, across any multi-cloud environment, so our customers – enterprise businesses, service providers, governments, and consumer brands—can deliver differentiated, high-performing, and secure digital experiences.
