Senior Site Reliability Engineer (platform Focus)

F5

Multiple Locations
Base: $176,800.00 - $265,200.00; bonus/equity: inc...
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Kubernetes platform distributions
Automation and tooling
Reliability practices (slos, error budgets)
** F5 is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with a strong platform engineering focus to design, build, and operate systems that enhance application performance and reliability. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering, particularly with Kubernetes and automation tools. **

Job Summary

  • Design, build, and operate foundational systems that power our products, blending infrastructure expertise with software engineering discipline.
  • Build and evolve multiple distributions of Kubernetes platform, drive reliability practices, and implement observability systems.
  • Lead complex troubleshooting efforts across distributed systems and production environments, and mentor engineers.

Matching Summary

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** F5 is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with a strong platform engineering focus to design, build, and operate systems that enhance application performance and reliability. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering, particularly with Kubernetes and automation tools. **

Salary

Base: $176,800.00 - $265,200.00; Bonus/Equity: Incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units; Benefits: Included

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Kubernetes platform distributions
  • Automation and tooling
  • Reliability practices (SLOs, error budgets)
  • Observability systems (metrics, logging, tracing)
  • Infrastructure-as-code (IaC)
  • GitOps
  • Incident response and RCA

Nice-to-have

  • Internal developer platforms
  • Event-driven architectures
  • Security engineering familiarity
  • Open-source contributions
  • Cloud-native patterns

Key Requirements

  • 8+ years in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering
  • Expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration
  • Proficiency with IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation)
  • Solid programming skills (Go, Python, Bash)
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, networking, Linux
  • Experience building CI/CD pipelines
  • Strong observability background (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)

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