Director of Engineering, AI Data Fabric

F5 Inc

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
SeattleRestonSan Jose
Salary
$253,400–$380,200 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
14 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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Above market

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This role pays more than 83% of similar roles. Most pay $207,555–$288,387 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $317k versus about $248k for comparable roles.

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About F5 Inc

F5, Inc. is an American technology company specializing in application security, multi-cloud management, online fraud prevention, application delivery networking, application availability and performance, and network security, access, and authorization.

F5 Inc currently has 44 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $179,500–$269,300 across 31 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Director of Engineering, AI Data Fabric

The Director of Engineering, AI Data Fabric leads the engineering organization responsible for the OpenTelemetry based data platform at F5. This role oversees the full modern data platform stack, including ingestion, processing, transformation, storage, and retrieval of telemetry from internal and external sources. You will guide the team to expand the fabric into more first-party data centers and cloud providers to handle exponentially more data. Key responsibilities include owning the technical strategy, multi-year roadmap, and platform contracts while ensuring reliability, security, and cost efficiency. Required technical expertise includes Kafka, Flink, Spark, ClickHouse, StarRocks, Druid, Trino, Iceberg, Delta, and Kubernetes. Candidates must demonstrate proficiency in Golang, Java, Python, or C++ to engage in architecture discussions and manage production data pipelines for AI/ML and analytics workloads.

What you'll do

  • Lead the engineering organization responsible for the F5 AI Data Fabric platform.
  • Develop and coach engineering managers to meet high technical and delivery standards.
  • Own the technical strategy, multi-year roadmap, and core technology selections for the data platform.
  • Expand the data fabric across first-party data centers and multiple cloud providers.
  • Manage platform contracts and data ingestion for AI/ML, analytics, and data engineering teams.
  • Ensure platform reliability, security, and privacy through SLO management and incident response.
  • Optimize platform efficiency by managing infrastructure spend and unit economics.
  • Negotiate vendor relationships and licensing terms with Procurement and Finance teams.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience.
  • 6+ years of experience managing engineers.
  • 2+ years of experience managing managers.
  • Experience leading an engineering organization through a major platform migration, expansion, or re-architecture.
  • Track record of operating enterprise-scale data platforms under formal SLOs and 24/7 accountability.
  • Experience presenting technical strategy, risk, and investment trade-offs to executive leadership.
  • Experience engineering data correctness into production pipelines, including validation and automated detection of quality regressions.
  • Experience designing platform APIs and data contracts consumed by AI/ML, analytics, and data engineering teams.

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