F5 · 19 hours ago
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Platform Focus)
Seattle
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$177K/yr - $265K/yr
8+ years expF5 is a company dedicated to enhancing the digital world by empowering organizations to create, secure, and run applications. They are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer focused on platform engineering to design, build, and operate the foundational systems that power their products, ensuring reliability and scalability through automation and thoughtful system design.
SaaSConsumer GoodsConsumer ElectronicsSecurityVirtualization
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
Qualification
Required
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
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
Benefits
Incentive compensation
Bonus
Restricted stock units
Benefits
Company
F5 is a multi-cloud application services and security company that specializes in application security, performance, and delivery.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
Elliott Management Corp.
2020-11-08Post Ipo Equity
1999-06-04IPO
1998-09-24Series Unknown
Leadership Team
François Locoh-Donou
President and CEO
Mohan Veloo
Chief Technology Officer - Asia Pacific, China & Japan
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