Site Reliability Engineer

F5 Inc

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
SeattleSan Jose
Salary
$137,300–$205,900 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
4 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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This role pays less than 63% of similar roles. Most pay $145,375–$217,906 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $172k versus about $182k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 36 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $160,800–$241,200 across 25 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Site Reliability Engineer

The Site Reliability Engineer joins the team to support and scale an AI Security Public SaaS platform, specifically managing AI inference workloads at scale. This hybrid role combines technical support responsibilities with site reliability engineering to ensure high availability and performance. You will monitor key SaaS metrics, logs, and alerts to proactively prevent service disruptions while serving as a primary point of contact for technical customer inquiries. Key tasks include triaging incidents, collaborating with engineering teams to provide actionable insights, and designing automation to streamline incident response. Required skills include proficiency in Python, understanding of web technologies like HTTP and REST APIs, and experience with cloud-based architectures like AWS. Preferred experience includes using Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Linux, and Kubernetes to mature SRE best practices.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $187850 from 136 postings across 39 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Monitor key SaaS application metrics, logs, and alerts to proactively prevent service disruptions.
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for technical customer inquiries and troubleshooting.
  • Triage, escalate, and own technical incidents through resolution for the AI Security platform.
  • Analyze metrics and incident reports to provide actionable insights and recurring pattern identification to engineering teams.
  • Design and implement automation to streamline incident response and improve overall system reliability.
  • Introduce and mature SRE best practices, including enhanced monitoring, alerting, and self-healing capabilities.
  • Build scalable, resilient infrastructure to support high-volume AI inference workloads.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
  • 1–3+ years of experience in technical support, systems administration, or a similar role.
  • Strong understanding of SaaS environments and cloud-based architectures (preferably AWS).
  • Proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g., Python).
  • Solid understanding of web technologies including HTTP, REST APIs, and JSON.
  • Experience working with ticketing systems.
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) (preferred).
  • Familiarity with configuration management tools (e.g., Terraform) (preferred).

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