Principal Product Manager, F5 Distributed Cloud
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Job Location:
San Jose, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 196000 - 294000
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.
We are seeking aPrincipal Product Manager Platform Observabilityto define and drive the multi-year observability strategy and execution across our SaaS platform. This role will build and evolve a highly scalable and resilient telemetry foundation that powers operational excellence and delivers customer-facing insights.
Job Requirements
Define and execute the multi-year roadmap for platform observability.
Define andDrivethe integration with external logging systems
Collaborate with service product leaders to deliver differentiatedcapabilitiesto provide insights on traffic visibility WAF telemetryandAPI protection.
Align observability investments with SaaS scale cost optimization and reliability goals.
RequiredExperience
8 years of Product Management experience with at least 3 yearsinbuilding B2B SaaS products.
Knowledge in Distributed systems and cloud-native architectures
Hands-on familiarity with observability tools such as: Prometheus Grafana Loki Mimir Tempo Elastic Datadog Splunketc
Experience building products formulti-tenant SaaS platforms.
Knowledge of L4L7 networking concepts (TCP TLS HTTPgRPC APIs)
Demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives from strategy through delivery in a fast-paced SaaS environment.
How to Stand out (Preferred Qualifications)
Experience building observability product or service
ExperienceinHigh-scale logging pipelines (Kafka Event Hubs Kinesis)Schema governance (Avro/OTLP)and cost-efficient telemetry architectures
Knowledge of Kubernetes observabilityeBPF-basedtelemetryandOpenTelemetrystandards
Experience driving automation initiatives (incident automation self-healing systems)
Exposure to AI-assisted observability or SRE tooling.
Experience in networking/security-focused SaaS (CDN WAF Zero Trust Edge platforms).
Experience in API governance and platform programmability strategy to ensure secure consistent and scalable integrations.
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: $196000.00 - $294000.00F5 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 .
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About Company
F5 application services ensure that applications are always secure and perform the way they should—in any environment and on any device.
