Software Engineer III, Data Platform

F5 Networks; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 10,00,000 - 20,00,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in Bengaluru seeks a Software Engineer to join their Data Platform team. The ideal candidate will be involved in building and innovating data systems across hybrid cloud environments, with a focus on performance monitoring and observability. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in computer science, proficiency in cloud-native development, and extensive experience with data platforms and SaaS products. The role offers an opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies in an inclusive environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of equivalent professional experience.
• Experience with data/system observability and performance monitoring.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills in data systems.

Responsibilities

• Build F5 Distributed Cloud data system and innovate data and analytics platforms.
• Accelerate deployment and operations of data platform.
• Implement observability strategies and performance monitoring.

Skills

Cloud-native development

Proficiency in Go

Proficiency in Java

Proficiency in Python

Data platform experience

SaaS products experience

Data processing with Kafka

Database proficiency

AI platform experience

Kubernetes knowledge

CI/CD tools proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

Kafka

Prometheus

Elasticsearch

Databricks

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.

Position Summary

Join a revolutionary team of Distributed Cloud Data platform, Analytics, Cloud service specialists to build core data system, analytics, telemetry, AI/Generative AI powered services at scale in the growing field of multi-cloud SaaS (Software as a Service), Security and Multi Cloud Networking solutions.

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Data platform and service team to accelerate data platform and data and observability missions in the F5 Distributed Cloud Platform Group.

As a member of the Distributed Cloud Data platform team, you will be responsible for designing and developing data systems and data services across hybrid Cloud for the new landscape of F5 SaaS products.

Responsibilities

• Build F5 Distributed Cloud data system and innovate in next-generation data and analytics platform
• Accelerate the deployment, automation, and operations of the data platform across on-prem and cloud
• Implement observability strategies and performance monitoring of system
• Design, develop, and enhance data, analytics, AI/Generative AI powered services on SaaS platform
• Design, develop, and enhance telemetry and metrics pipeline and services
• Work closely with product, marketing, operations, platform, and customer support teams to create innovative solutions for cloud product delivery

Required Qualifications

• Be kind.
• Demonstrate a human-first, empathetic approach to teamwork and communication. Collaborate, value learning, humility, and shared ownership.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience (5+ years).
• Proficiency in cloud-native development and programming languages such as Go, Java, Python.
• Extensive hands‑on experience in data platform and SaaS products.
• Proficiency in data/stream processing (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Vector, Spark, Flink), database and data warehouse (e.g., ClickHouse, StarRocks, Elasticsearch, BigQuery), analytics and AI platform (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake).
• Proficiency in deployment and automation of data system, analytics pipeline across on-prem and cloud.
• Experience with logs, metrics, telemetry, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry.
• Experience with data system observability, monitoring, alerting, quality and performance.
• Experience in SaaS multi-tenancy, onboarding, metering & billing, monitoring & alerting.
• Experience with container and orchestration technologies, Kubernetes and microservices.
• Experience with automation and cloud infrastructure, tooling, workload, modern CI/CD.
• Exposure to AI, agentic, and generative AI techniques used to support platform troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and operational efficiency.
• Strong analytical and end-to-end debugging skills in data system and pipeline with extensive knowledge from network, infra technologies.

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.

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 [e-mail].