Director of Engineering, AI Data Fabric
Core
Lead the engineering organization for F5 AI Data Fabric, an OpenTelemetry-based platform ingesting, processing, and serving telemetry data to power AI/ML, analytics, and data engineering workloads across the company.
Role type
Director of Engineering (Platform)
Builds
Enterprise-scale data platform stack (ingestion, processing, storage, retrieval) serving as the system of record for product measurement and customer usage.
Domain
Cybersecurity / Data Engineering / Cloud Infrastructure
Required skills
Engineering management (managing managers), distributed compute (Kafka, Flink, Spark), analytical storage (ClickHouse, StarRocks, Druid, Trino), Kubernetes at scale, hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure, OpenTelemetry pipelines, data security and privacy, Golang/Java/Python/C++
Preferred skills
Leading platform migrations, executive stakeholder management, vendor relationship management
Technologies
Kafka, Flink, Spark, ClickHouse, StarRocks, Druid, Trino, Iceberg, Delta, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Golang, Java, Python, C++
Responsibilities
Build and develop engineering managers; drive delivery and clear cross-team dependencies; own technical strategy and multi-year roadmap; lead regional expansion across data centers and cloud providers; ensure data reliability, accuracy, and security; optimize platform efficiency and cost.
Seniority
Director, hands-on leadership
