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.

We are seeking a Principal Product Manager – Platform Observability to define and drive the multi-year observability strategy and execution across our SaaS platform. This role will build and evolve a highly scalable and resilient telemetry foundation that powers operational excellence and delivers customer-facing insights.

Job Requirements:

• Define and execute the multi-year roadmap for platform observability.

• Define and Drive the integration with external logging systems

• Collaborate with service product leaders to deliver differentiated capabilities to provide insights on traffic visibility, WAF telemetry, and API protection.

• Align observability investments with SaaS scale, cost optimization, and reliability goals.

Required Experience:

• 8+ years of Product Management experience with at least 3+ years in building B2B SaaS products.

• Knowledge in Distributed systems and cloud-native architectures

• Hands-on familiarity with observability tools such as: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, Elastic, Datadog, Splunk, etc

• Experience building products for multi-tenant SaaS platforms.

• Knowledge of L4–L7 networking concepts (TCP, TLS, HTTP, gRPC, APIs)

• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from strategy through delivery in a fast-paced SaaS environment.

How to Stand out (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience building observability product or service

• Experience in High-scale logging pipelines (Kafka, Event Hubs, Kinesis), Schema governance (Avro/OTLP) and cost-efficient telemetry architectures

• Knowledge of Kubernetes observability, e

BPF-based telemetry and Open Telemetry standards:

• Experience driving automation initiatives (incident automation, self-healing systems)

• Exposure to AI-assisted observability or SRE tooling.

• Experience in networking/security-focused SaaS (CDN, WAF, Zero Trust, Edge platforms).

• Experience in API governance and platform programmability strategy to ensure secure, consistent, and scalable integrations.

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: $196,000.00 - $294,000.00

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.