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F5

Director of Engineering, AI Data Fabric

F5

. Lead the engineering organization behind F5 AI Data Fabric, an OpenTelemetry-based platform ingesting, processing, transforming, storing, and serving telemetry .

Posted 10/13/2026full-timeUnited StatesLead💰 $253,400 - $380,200 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates extensive experience in leading engineering organizations through platform migrations and expansions while ensuring data correctness and operational excellence. Proficient in managing multi-cloud infrastructures and driving technical strategy, with a strong focus on data security and privacy.

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10+ Years In Software Engineering6+ Years Managing EngineersExperience Leading Major Platform MigrationsProduction-Scale Kubernetes ExpertiseKnowledge Of Kafka, Flink, And Spark

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Hard Skills
Data Platform ArchitectureData Pipeline EngineeringAPI DesignData Quality ValidationProduction Data ObservabilityGolangJavaPythonC++OpenTelemetry
Soft Skills
Clear CommunicationLeadershipCoachingPerformance ManagementProblem Solving
Tools & Technologies
ClickHouseStarRocksDruidTrinoIcebergDeltaKubernetesHybrid Cloud InfrastructureIaCTelemetry Tools
Industry Keywords
Data SecurityPrivacy ComplianceSLOsIncident ResponseTelemetry Reliability

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudJavaKafkaKubernetesPythonSparkC++Go

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead the engineering organization behind F5 AI Data Fabric, an OpenTelemetry-based platform ingesting, processing, transforming, storing, and serving telemetry
  • Extend the AI Data Fabric into more F5 data centers and additional cloud providers
  • Lead the organization through exponentially increased data volume and source expansion
  • Own the full modern data platform stack: ingestion, processing, transformation, storage, and retrieval
  • Engage in architecture discussions, unblock critical issues, and evaluate technical trade-offs
  • Build, lead, and develop engineering managers by setting goals, coaching, evaluating performance, and maintaining technical and delivery standards
  • Drive delivery by allocating capacity, tracking execution, surfacing risks, and resolving cross-team dependencies
  • Partner with Product, Finance, SRE, Security, and engineering leadership on platform strategy and resourcing
  • Deploy LLMs and other techniques to safely accelerate feedback loops
  • Own technical strategy, multi-year roadmap, engineering standards, build-versus-buy decisions, and core technology selection
  • Manage vendor and licensing relationships
  • Lead phased regional expansion while meeting residency requirements
  • Own platform contracts used by AI/ML, analytics, data engineering, and catalog teams
  • Prioritize onboarding of new telemetry sources
  • Own telemetry reliability, accuracy, timeliness, and auditability
  • Own production health, SLOs, on-call, incident command, and post-incident fixes
  • Own security and privacy, including data classification, PII handling, access control, threat modeling, and audit readiness
  • Own platform efficiency, infrastructure spend, unit economics, and capacity decisions

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 10+ years in software engineering
  • 6+ years managing engineers
  • 2+ years managing managers
  • Experience leading an engineering organization through a major platform migration, expansion, or re-architecture without disrupting production
  • Track record of delivering and operating enterprise-scale data platforms under formal SLOs and 24/7 accountability
  • Experience growing engineering managers, including leveling, promoting, and managing performance at the manager layer
  • Experience presenting technical strategy, risk, and investment trade-offs to executive leadership
  • Experience engineering data correctness into production pipelines, including validation, reconciliation, and automated detection of quality regressions
  • Experience designing platform APIs and data contracts consumed by AI/ML, analytics, and data engineering teams, including training and feature data delivery
  • Experience operating a platform whose data feeds billing or externally reported figures
  • Knowledge of Kafka, Flink, and Spark
  • Experience with ClickHouse, StarRocks, Druid, Trino, Iceberg, and Delta
  • Production-scale Kubernetes platform expertise, including cluster and fleet management, scheduling, upgrades, and capacity
  • Hybrid, multi-cloud infrastructure expertise with public clouds and on-premise or first-party data centers, IaC, residency and sovereignty constraints, and workload portability
  • OpenTelemetry pipeline knowledge, including collectors, semantic conventions, and configuration
  • Production data pipeline observability, alerting, and incident response
  • Data security and privacy expertise for production data platforms
  • Working expertise in Golang, Java, Python, or C++
  • Ability to lead through ambiguity and change
  • Clear, candid communication with cross-functional and executive stakeholders

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Incentive compensation
  • Bonus
  • Restricted stock units
  • Benefits package
  • Continuous learning opportunities and mentorship
  • Positive and supportive culture
  • Inclusive workplace
  • Reasonable accommodations for candidates