The Principal Product Manager – Platform Observability at Ffive will define and drive the long-term observability vision across the F5 Distributed Cloud SaaS platform. This role is critical in establishing a robust telemetry foundation that supports operational excellence and delivers actionable customer insights in traffic visibility, WAF telemetry, and API protection.
What You'll Do
- 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.
What We're Looking For
- 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.
Nice to Have
- 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.
Technical Stack
- Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, Elastic, Datadog, Splunk, Kafka, Event Hubs, Kinesis, Avro, OTLP, Kubernetes, eBPF, OpenTelemetry
Team & Environment
- Passionate about cybersecurity
- Customer-centric
- People-focused
- Diverse and inclusive community
- Empowers innovation
- Operational excellence
- Collaborative
Benefits & Compensation
- Incentive compensation
- Bonus
- Restricted stock units
- Health benefits
- PTO
- Training and development
- Relocation assistance (if applicable)
- Reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities
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.
