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Position Summary

F5 is actively seeking an exceptional Sr Site Reliability Engineer to play a pivotal role in our SRE team for the groundbreaking F5 Distributed Cloud product.

Primary Responsibilities

• Play the role of a hands-on SRE Engineer focused on automation and toil-reduction and participate in ops cycles to support our product.
• Perform on-call support function on a rotation basis, providing timely resolution of issues and ensuring operational excellence in managing and maintaining distributed networking and security products.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Elasticsearch: Deep understanding of indexing strategies, query optimization, cluster management, and tuning for high-throughput use cases. Familiarity with slow query analysis, scaling, and shard management.
• ClickHouse: Proven experience in designing and managing OLAP workloads, optimizing query performance, and implementing efficient table engines and materialized views.
• Apache Kafka: Expertise in event streaming architecture, topic design, producer/consumer configuration, and handling high-volume, low-latency data pipelines. Experience with Kafka Connect and Schema Registry is a plus.
• Vector (Datadog/Timber.io/Logs): Proficiency in configuring Vector for observability pipelines, including log transformation, enrichment, and routing to multiple sinks (e.g., Elasticsearch, S3, ClickHouse).
• Hands-on programming experience in any one language python, golang + shell scripting.
• Strong networking fundamentals and experience dealing with different layers of the networking stack.
• SRE/Devops on Linux & Kubernetes: Demonstrate excellent, hands-on knowledge of deploying workloads and managing lifecyle on kubernetes, with practical experience on debugging issues.
• Experience in upgrading workloads for SaaS Services without downtime.
• Oncall Experience in managing everyday OPs for production environments. Experience in production alerts management and using dashboards to debug issues.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Prior experience in deploying workloads and managing lifecycle on any cloud provider (AWS/GCP/Azure).

Qualifications

• Typically, requires at least 10+ years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree, 7+ year and a master’s degree, or a PhD with 5+ year of experience or equivalent experience.
• Excellent organizational agility and communication skills throughout the organization.

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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.

F5 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.

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