Reliability Engineer

Description:

F5 is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer to support and enhance the F5 Distributed Cloud product. This hands-on SRE role focuses on automation, infrastructure stability, observability, and reliability engineering for large-scale distributed networking and security systems. The engineer will be deeply involved in building resilient systems, improving automation pipelines, supporting on-call operations, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless delivery of cloud services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as a hands-on SRE focused on automation, reliability, and toil reduction.

• Participate in on-call rotation to resolve production issues and maintain operational excellence.

• Expand and improve infrastructure automation using Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm, Terraform, and Golang/Python.

• Enhance observability systems (metrics, logs, monitoring, alerting).

• Collaborate with application owners and SRE peers for roadmap execution.

• Design scalable, resilient, and secure distributed systems.

• Ensure workloads are deployed and upgraded in Kubernetes with zero downtime.

• Contribute to Disaster Recovery planning and migration activities.

• Build, optimize, and maintain CI/CD pipelines.

• Deploy and manage cloud workloads across AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Qualifications:

• US Citizenship is required due to nature of work.

• 8+ years of relevant experience (or equivalent via advanced degree).

• Strong programming skills in Python or Golang, plus shell scripting.

• Advanced Terraform expertise.

• Solid networking fundamentals with experience across multiple network stack layers.

• Deep SRE/DevOps experience with Linux and Kubernetes.

• Practical experience debugging distributed systems and production workloads.

• GitOps experience using Helm/Kustomize and ArgoCD/FluxCD.

• Strong CI/CD knowledge and hands-on pipeline management.

• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).

• Production on-call experience and strong troubleshooting skills.

Desired Characteristics:

• Strong communication and organizational skills across all levels.

• Passion for automation, reliability engineering, and reducing operational toil.

• Ability to work autonomously and take full ownership of solutions.

• Collaborative persona, comfortable working across diverse teams.

• Innovative mindset with enthusiasm for continuous learning.

Additional Requirements:

• Must be able to participate in an on-call rotation.

• Must adhere to strong security principles and best practices.

• Experience with disaster recovery and migrations is a plus.

• Must work in hybrid mode based in San Jose, CA.

• F5 may request verification of U.S. citizenship.