Job Description

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 is instrumental in driving strategy, technical execution, and delivering impactful outcomes for the F5 Unified Console platform under theXOpsframework. As part of the team, you will shape how operational teams across DevOps, SecOps, NetOps, andAppOpscollect, analyze, and act on application-level telemetry through advanced Unified Console Observability and proactive AI-powered insights. Your contributions will help streamline cross-discipline workflows through intelligent integrations and actionable insights to support operators, security teams, and application owners.

You will collaborate across Engineering, Architecture, Product Management, Field Teams, and Customers to deeply understand operational challenges,validatereal-world use cases, and ensure the product evolves to meet emerging needs. From competitive analysis to solution demonstrations and guidance, you will act as a technical leader driving innovation in observability, security, proactive AI-driven automation, and telemetry across various systems—including BIG-IP, syslog pipelines, Databases likePrometheus andClickHouse,along withAI-enhanced data integrations.

We are seeking a Product Management Engineer forXOpswho thrives at the intersection of AI-powered insights, data observability, platform solutions, and customer problem-solving. If you are eager to enable proactive insights and unified workflows that enhance application performance, security, and reliability across diverse teams, we want to connect with you.

Primary Responsibilities

Advocate forXOps Serve as the voice ofXOpsteams (DevOps, SecOps,AppOps, NetOps) leveraging F5 Unified Console and AI Insights across their BIG-IP, NGINX, and XC environments.

Drive Observability Innovation: Translate complex customer workflows into actionable product requirements with a focus onconsolidatedtelemetry, advanced performance analytics, and proactive AI-powered anomaly detection.

Shape Customer-Centric Solutions:ValidateUnified Console interfaces, dashboards, telemetry workflows, and data modelsleveragingon-the-ground customer environments and feedback.

EnableXOpsTeam Success: Produce demos and deliver training highlighting how Unified Console Observability and AI-enhanced insights empower teams to respond faster andoperatesmarter.

Highlight Competitive Advantages: Create thought leadership contentshowcasingF5's strengths in observability, proactive security, and AI-driven automation compared to competitors.

Influence Product Strategy: Collaborate across teams to guide strategy, focusing on telemetry ingestion, dashboards, AI anomaly correlation, agentless observability, and cross-functional data integration.

Be a TechnicalXOpsSubject-Matter Expert: Provideexpertiseon application telemetry, BIG-IP LTM insights, syslog pipelines, MCP telemetry, and market trends in AI-ops observability.

Analyze Competition: Evaluate competitor offerings in categories such as APM, NPM, SIEM, and AI-enhanced operations.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• XOpsCommunication Expertise: Ability to articulate technical observability and AI concepts to both engineering teams and business stakeholders across DevOps, SecOps,AppOps, and NetOps teams.

• Modern Telemetry Knowledge: Strong grasp of telemetry concepts, including HTTP,OpenTelemetry, REST APIs, syslog analysis, and application behavior modeling.

• Proficiencyin Observability Systems: Familiarity with tools like Prometheus,ClickHouse, Splunk, or similar platforms for metrics, logs, and real-time analysis.

• Networking & Applications Background: Foundational knowledge of BIG-IP LTM, MCP telemetry integrations, and reverse proxy or load-balancing systems.

• AI-Driven Observability Insight: Comfort working with AI/ML technologies to enable proactive operational insights or automation.

• Cross-Team Collaboration: Exceptional communication skills to bridge technical and operational gaps across diverse teams.

• Problem-Solving Instincts: Ability to distill complex data challenges into simple solutions, driving faster decision-making and measurable outcomes.
  

Qualifications

• XOpsExperience 2+ years in Product Management, DevOps, Security Operations, or related technical customer-facing roles supportingXOpsteams.

• Operations Expertise 3+ years working with application, infrastructure, networking, or security operations solutions in enterprise environments.

• Telemetry Systems Hands-on experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Splunk, Datadog, ELK Stack, or similar tools.

• Product & Market Intelligence Experience in researching and analyzing trends or competitive offerings in observability, AI automation, or security-driven telemetry.

• Bonus Skills Experience with BIG-IP or managing scalable load-balancing solutions in dynamic network environments.
  
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The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

The annual base pay for this position is: $179,200.00 - $268,800.00

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com)

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com