Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Platform Focus)
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Job Location:
San Jose, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 176800 - 265200
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Platform Focus)
About the Role
Werelooking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with a strong platform engineering mindset to design build andoperatethe foundational systems that power our products. This role blends deep infrastructureexpertisewith software engineering discipline to create scalable resilient and developerfriendly platforms.
Youllpartner closely with engineering teams to evolve our platform architecture improve reliability and accelerate delivery through automation observability and thoughtful system design.
Key Responsibilities
Build and evolvemultiple distributions ofKubernetes platform.
Build automation and toolingto streamline deployments configuration and environment management.
Drive reliability practicessuch as SLOs error budgets incidentresponses and postincident reviews.
Developgolden pathsfor service onboarding CI/CD and platform usage across all K8s variants.
Implement observability systemsincluding metrics logging tracing and alerting.
Collaborate with product and engineering teamsto ensure platform capabilities meet evolving needs.
Optimizeperformance and capacityacrosscompute storage and networking layers.
Champion infrastructure-as-codeand modern cloudnative patterns.
Driveautomation-first operationsusingIaCandGitOps.
Leadincident response RCA post-incident learning and improve on-call health.
Partner with security teams to enforce platform guardrails policy and secure defaults.
Lead complex troubleshooting effortsacross distributed systems and production environments.
Mentor engineersand contribute to a culture of operational excellence.
Required Qualifications
8 years in SRE DevOps or platform engineeringwith handson ownership of production systems.
Expertisein Kubernetes and container orchestrationat scale.
ProficiencywithIaCtoolssuch asTerraformAnsibleandCloudFormation.
Solid programming skillsin languages such as Go Python orBash.
Deep understanding of distributed systems networking and Linux internals.
Experience building CI/CD pipelinesusing tools likeGitlab runnersGitHub Actions or Jenkins.
Strong observability backgroundwith Prometheus GrafanaOpen Telemetry or similar.
Proventrack recordof incident managementand improving system reliability.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience designing internal developer platformsor platformasaproduct models.
Experience in OpenShift Titank8sandRobin.
Knowledge of eventdriven architecturesand streaming systems like Kafka.
Security engineering familiarityincludingsecretsmanagement and compliance frameworks.
Contributions to opensource projectsin the cloudnative ecosystem.
Strong experience with cloud platformssuch as AWS Azure or GCP.
What Success Looks Like
A stable scalable platformthat accelerates developer productivity.
Reduced operational toilthrough automation and selfservice tooling.
Clear reliability metricsthat guide engineering decisions.
Faster safer deploymentswith strong CI/CD foundations.
A culture of learning and ownershipacross engineering teams.
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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: $176800.00 - $265200.00F5 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:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Kubernetes
- FMEA
- Continuous Improvement
- Elasticsearch
- Go
- Root cause Analysis
- Maximo
- CMMS
- Maintenance
- Mechanical Engineering
- Manufacturing
- Troubleshooting
About Company
F5 application services ensure that applications are always secure and perform the way they should—in any environment and on any device.
