Principal Product Manager, F5 Distributed Cloud at F5

You are an experienced product manager with over eight years of experience, including at least three years building B2B SaaS platforms. You have a deep understa

Work type: hybrid

Location: San Jose | Seattle

Salary: $196,000 – $294,000/yr

Type: Full-time

Summary

You are an experienced product manager with over eight years of experience, including at least three years building B2B SaaS platforms. You have a deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native architectures. **What makes it worth a look...** F5 offers a base salary between $196,000 and $294,000 annually for this hybrid role based in San Jose or Seattle. Beyond the base pay, you are eligible for bonuses and restricted stock units. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have hands-on experience with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or Splunk. * Possess technical knowledge of L4–L7 networking concepts such as TCP, HTTP, and gRPC. * Have a background building products for multi-tenant SaaS environments. * Understand cloud observability standards like OpenTelemetry and eBPF.

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.

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, eBPF-based telemetry and OpenTelemetry 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](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).

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