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
We’re looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with a strong platform engineering mindset to design, build, and operate the foundational systems that power our products. This role blends deep infrastructure expertise with software engineering discipline to create scalable, resilient, and developer‑friendly platforms.
You’ll partner 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 evolve multiple distributions of Kubernetes platform.
Build automation and tooling to streamline deployments, configuration, and environment management.
Drive reliability practices such as SLOs, error budgets, incident responses, and post‑incident reviews.
Develop golden paths for service onboarding, CI/CD, and platform usage across all K8s variants.
Implement observability systems including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.
Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure platform capabilities meet evolving needs.
Optimize performance and capacity across compute, storage, and networking layers.
Champion infrastructure-as-code and modern cloud‑native patterns.
Drive automation-first operations using IaC and GitOps.
Lead incident 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 efforts across distributed systems and production environments.
Mentor engineers and contribute to a culture of operational excellence.
Required Qualifications
8+ years in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering with hands‑on ownership of production systems.
Expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale.
Proficiency with IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation.
Solid programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, or Bash.
Deep understanding of distributed systems, networking, and Linux internals.
Experience building CI/CD pipelines using tools like Gitlab runners, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
Strong observability background with Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry, or similar.
Proven track record of incident management and improving system reliability.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience designing internal developer platforms or platform‑as‑a‑product models.
Experience in OpenShift, Titan‑k8s and Robin.
Knowledge of event‑driven architectures and streaming systems like Kafka.
Security engineering familiarity including secrets management and compliance frameworks.
Contributions to open‑source projects in the cloud‑native ecosystem.
Strong experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
What Success Looks Like
A stable, scalable platform that accelerates developer productivity.
Reduced operational toil through automation and self‑service tooling.
Clear reliability metrics that guide engineering decisions.
Faster, safer deployments with strong CI/CD foundations.
A culture of learning and ownership across 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: $176,800.00 - $265,200.00F5 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 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. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. 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 @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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F5 San Jose, California, USA Office
90 Rio Robles, San Jose, CA, United States, 95134
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