Data Engineer I

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.

Start your data career where real-world impact meets open‑source innovation.

Just graduating (or recently graduated) and excited about data, cloud tech, and building things that matter?

At NGINX, we’re looking for an Entry Data Engineer to join our Product Data Group in Cork — a team that turns raw product signals into insights used by engineers and customers around the world.

This is a graduate‑friendly role designed to help you learn, grow, and make an impact from day one.

About NGINX

NGINX powers some of the busiest and most innovative platforms on the internet. Our products sit at the heart of modern applications, helping teams build fast, secure, and reliable digital experiences — at global scale.

What You’ll Be Doing

As a Data Engineer in the Product Data Group, you’ll help build and maintain the data foundations behind our products, including telemetry, logs, alerts, and usage data.

You will:

• Build and support scalable data pipelines that turn raw product data into usable insights
• Contribute to data cleaning, transformation, and modeling following clear design standards
• Learn and apply data quality best practices, including testing, monitoring, and alerting
• Help implement data management processes like backfills and retries
• Write clear documentation so others can build on your work
• Collaborate with engineers across teams to understand how product data flows end‑to‑end
  
  
  

You won’t be expected to know everything — you’ll be supported by experienced engineers and given space to learn.

What We’re Looking For

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you (0you don’t need to tick every box).

Core skills (through studies, internships, or early career experience):

• 0–2 years of experience or strong academic background in data engineering, analytics, or software engineering
• Understanding of data modeling and schema design concepts
• Working knowledge of SQL and Python
• Clear communicator who enjoys collaborating and asking questions
  
  
  

Bonus (Nice to Have, Not Required)

• Experience working on software projects using Git, basic SDLC, or testing frameworks
• Exposure to tools like dbt or Databricks
• Experience with data visualization or analytics tools (e.g. Tableau)
  
  
  

Who Should Apply?

Students or recent graduates from degrees such as:

• Computer Science
• Data Science / Analytics
• Software Engineering
• Mathematics, Physics, or related STEM fields
  
  
  

If you’re curious, motivated, and excited about data — we encourage you to apply.

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.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

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