Engineering Manager â Observability & Ingest
Engineering Manager â Observability & Ingest
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Job Description
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.
Position Summary:
F5 is evolving its observability platform with an AI-first OpenTelemetry (OTEL) edge that ingests telemetry from internal microservices customer environments third-party SaaS and strategic partners. This team also owns the downstream data-engineering fabric that converts raw events into high-quality analytics-ready datasets that power our products.
As a leader in our AI Center of Excellence you will balance innovation with responsibility: embracing AI wherever it accelerates engineering and insight while upholding data quality privacy and operational rigor. Youll serve as a cross-team catalystpartnering with Product SRE Security and multiple feature squadsto embed instrumentation share best practices and drive company-wide adoption of our unified data pipeline and AI capabilities.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Own and evolve the OTEL ingest pipeline: design scale and operate a collector fleet processing millions of traces metrics and logs per minute.
- Lead a diverse team of 68 engineers: Employee management including establishing goals coaching conducting performance evaluations and hiring candidates for open positions as well as hands-on coding debugging setting development standards architecture reviews.
- Design and build real-time stream processing that normalizes enriches and routes data within seconds of arrival.
- Lead data augmentation via ML (anomaly tagging service-map inference PII detection) to transform raw traffic into structured actionable signals.
- Define and uphold canonical schemas data contracts and taxonomies for all observability data.
- Champion pragmatic AI usedeploy LLMs or other techniques that shorten feedback loops or boost developer productivity while maintaining safety.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
- 7 years of production software development experience including 1 years managing or leading engineers while staying hands-on.
- Proven success operating high-throughput data pipelines - streaming (Kafka Kinesis Flink Spark Structured Streaming) and batch (Spark Glue EMR Airflow).
- Experience with OTEL at scale - collector pipelines auto-instrumentation custom schemas.
- Expertise with any combination of programming languages: Golang Java Python Scala C or any high-level proprietary or open-source language with strong programming constructs.
- Experience with running data workloads on major cloud providers including use of IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation etc.) observability and cost tuning.
- Columnar/OLAP proficiency - designing schemas and operating stores such as ClickHouse Apache Pinot Druid or Parquet/Iceberg at multi-terabyte scale.
- Ability to influence and enable cross-functional teams - clear candid communicator and servant leader.
Preferred Experience:
- Deep performance tuning of JVM/Golang runtimes in ultra-low-latency data paths.
- Hands-on experience translating data-privacy regulations (GDPR CCPA HIPAA) into technical controls.
- Designing for data regionality/residency - partitioning localization and per-region governance of telemetry and customer data.
- Operating and optimizing distributed data systems across multiple cloud regions (cross-region replication active-active failover latency and cost trade-offs).
- Public speaking blogging or conference presentations on observability data engineering privacy or applied AI.
Environment:
- We offer continuous learning opportunities and mentorship programs to support your career growth.
- Join a great team where youll feel at home from day one leading a positive and supportive workplace culture.
- The team collaborates primarily in North America with at least four hours of overlap with Pacific Time.
- F5 is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees feel valued and supported.
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: $157904.00 - $236856.00F5 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 F5s 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 F5s benefits can be found at the following link: 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 @) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with or @).
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 .
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
