Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?
Do you have a passion for cutting edge technologies and tackling system problems?
Join our highly skilled Site Reliability Engineering team!
Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We specialize in creating solutions that manage Compute platform, focusing on identity and access management (IAM) solutions. We do this while maintaining Akamai's mission to make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.
As a participant in our program, you will gain valuable experience and contribute through meaningful project work. You will have the opportunity to join us for training, networking events, and engagements with company leadership. Our internships are open to students and graduates.
Start: July 1st
Duration: 6 months
Salary: 45 PLN gross/h
Partner with the best
In this role, you'll be responsible for ensuring smooth operation and up-time of our Compute services and infrastructure. You'll supervise and maintain our critical infrastructure and collaborate with our operations and development teams to create tooling and software that monitors and improves the reliability of our systems. You'll work with various technologies as we release brand new applications and modernize our existing tooling.
As a Site Reliability Intern, you will be responsible for:
- Participating in the design, development, improvement, operation, and automation of AuthZ systems
- Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure effective communication and code development
- Contributing to internal research processes, methodologies, and approaches to create and share best practices
- Diagnosing system performance and reliability together with the team of Site Reliability Engineers
- Learning about our distributed systems, products, and technical stack necessary for your role
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Be a student in Computer Science, Engineering, Management Information Systems (MIS), or another related field
- Build on processes using script languages like Python or Bash and SQL
- Have basic knowledge of monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus
- Use GNU/Linux or Unix operating systems, its commands, services, and configuration
- Understand networking protocols (such as TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, and TLS/SSL)
Work in a way that works for you
Our 6-month intern program starts in July. The program requires you to be available 40 hours per week during summer months (July-September). We offer the opportunity to work part-time during the academic year (October-December).
This is a flexible role and may be performed at your home and/or the local Akamai office (in the country advertised). We are happy to discuss working options in this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more details when you apply.
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
Through our intern and co-op programs we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Financial benefits are offered through our managed service provider (MSP). Students also gain the following benefits directly from our programs:
- Mentorship
- Career development trainings
- Visibility into senior leadership through Fireside Chats
- Networking and social events with an international intern cohort
- Fun perks including Akamai branded merchandise
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 learn and make a real impact in a global technology company? Come join us and learn with a team of people who will energize and inspire you! By the end of your assignment, you will gain a network of encouraging colleagues ready to support you in your studies and beyond.
Skills Required
- Student in Computer Science, Engineering, Management Information Systems, or related field
- Basic knowledge of scripting languages like Python or Bash
- Basic knowledge of SQL
- Basic knowledge of monitoring tools like Grafana and Prometheus
- Familiarity with GNU/Linux or Unix operating systems and commands
- Understanding of networking protocols like TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, and TLS/SSL
Akamai Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Akamai Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Akamai Technologies.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO in the U.S., wellness days, paid volunteering time, and the FlexBase model contribute to broad time‑off flexibility. These practices are described as supporting strong work‑life balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leaves, paid family care leave, subsidized backup childcare, and inclusive family‑building benefits via Carrot form a comprehensive family support suite. Coverage spans fertility support through caregiving resources.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a substantial company match and immediate vesting, plus Roth and Mega Backdoor Roth options, underpin long‑term savings. These features provide reliable long‑term savings opportunities.
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What We Do
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every moment, billions of people, all over the world, are using the internet to shop, play games, look after finances, learn remotely, share videos, connect across the world, and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission, and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges, and turning the impossible into the possible. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Do you want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!
Why Work With Us
Our people are devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence, and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse, and we love to collaborate across the world.
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