Director of Engineering, AI Data Fabric

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.

This role leads the engineering organization behind the F5 AI Data Fabric: the Open Telemetry based data platform that ingests, processes, transforms, stores, and serves telemetry from both internal and external sources across F5’s businesses and platforms. AI/ML, analytics, and data engineering workloads across the company build on it, and it serves as F5’s system of record for product measurement and customer usage.

You will lead its next evolution: extending the fabric into more first‑party F5 data centers and additional cloud providers, making the AI Data Fabric even more available and performant. This expansion means processing exponentially more data, from more sources; you will guide the fabric and its team to meet the next scale moment.

Your organization owns the full modern data platform stack: ingestion, processing, transformation, storage, and retrieval. A partner team owns F5’s data catalog, which builds on top of the fabric; you own the platform that catalog depends on and the contracts between you. You will stay technical enough to engage credibly in architecture discussions, unblock critical issues, and evaluate trade‑offs, without serving as the primary hands‑on contributor.

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 everyone can thrive.

• Be kind.
• Lead teams through ambiguity and change, turning ill‑defined problems into clear priorities and plans. Execution and results is the standard by which you judge yourself.
• Influence cross‑functional and executive stakeholders as a clear, candid communicator, and develop the people managers who report to you.
• Distributed compute and streaming at production scale:
  Kafka, Flink, Spark.
• Analytical storage and query engines at scale (Click House, Star Rocks, Druid, Trino) and open table formats (Iceberg, Delta).
• Kubernetes at production scale as a platform substrate, not a product surface: cluster and fleet management, scheduling, upgrades, and capacity.
• Hybrid, multi‑cloud infrastructure at production scale: two or more public clouds alongside on‑premise or first‑party data centers, with IaC, residency and sovereignty constraints, and workload portability.
• Open Telemetry pipelines: collectors, semantic conventions, and configuration.
• Observability, alerting, and incident response for production data pipelines, including setting organizational standards.
• Data security and privacy for a production data platform.
• Working expertise in Golang, Java, Python, or C++, sufficient to engage credibly in technical reviews.

• Build, lead, and develop your engineering managers: set goals, coach for growth, evaluate performance, and hold each to a high technical and…