Are you passionate about cutting-edge technology and ensuring customer success?

Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?

Join our highly skilled Platform and Reliability Engineering team

Our team defines, measures, and optimizes the key performance indicators of our web and media customers. Working with engineering teams, we solve complex escalations as well as provide scalable solutions.

Partner with the best

In this role, you will provide technical expertise while impacting front line teams in decision making. You will help account teams gain customer confidence by providing feedback to improve products and platform performance.

As a Principal Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Working on various technologies to improve performance, availability and scalability of large distributed content delivery systems
• Identifying potential problems and creating scalable solutions to ensure continuous improvements to quality of service
• Collaborating with Engineering teams to specify feature sets to improve performance and facilitate measurement, monitoring, and benchmarking
• Using data analysis, network diagnostics and debugging tools to monitor our global network and content delivery environment
• Partnering directly with the SRE Business Lead to solve technical problems across the company

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 12+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
• Have previous experience with internet protocols (DNS, HTTP, TCP, TLS) and scripting languages (Python, Perl, shell).
• Possess excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate technical information across all levels of the business
• Have experience working with and analyzing complex systems in UNIX/Linux distributed production environments
• Have familiarity with streaming technologies such as Encoding, Video Players, Media Security, Streaming Protocols, and Media Workflows
• Show the ability to stay organized, keep multiple priorities on target, and take initiative to solve problems

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

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We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

About us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!

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Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from $149,122 - $238,744/year; a candidate's salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.