Would delivering the control plane that powers a public cloud excite you?
Are you passionate about pushing the limits of scale for cloud-native technologies?
Join our Compute Team!
Akamai's Cloud Technology Group's Compute divisionformerly Linode, now Akamai Cloudconsists of collaborative, inclusive, and creative teams. We develop applications and services to empower our customers. Our mission is to accelerate innovation by making cloud computing simple, scalable, affordable, and accessible to all. We design, develop, test and maintain products that run on our IaaS platform.
Shape the future if Akamai Cloud
With your expertise in Kubernetes and Cloud-Native technologies, you will provide technical and architectural leadership to design, build, and scale our Next Generation Control Plane. You will lead the transformation toward a highly available, resilient, and distributed microservices architecture designed to support massive-scale operations seamlessly.
As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer Lead, you will be responsible for:
- Contributing to the design, development, and operation of a Golden Path platform built on Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies
- Providing leadership, support, and mentoring of your team
- Creating and maintaining SLOs and KPIs, collaborating with Engineering, Product, and Support teams
- Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues
- Working in an environment that fosters innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 10+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or similar field) or equivalent experience
- Approach complex problems with methodical curiosity, eager to untangle complex webs of dependencies to gain understanding
- Have deep experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable production services using Kubernetes (ideally self-hosted/managed) and other cloud-native technologies
- Have a solid understanding of Linux internals, especially containerization and networking as well as the technologies that support it
- Take a code-first approach to operating infrastructure, effectively eliminating toil through code fixes and automation
- Be knowledgeable of the Go programming language and comfortable leveraging Python or Bash for scripting needs
- Be familiar using infrastructure as code tools like Crossplane, Pulumi, Terraform or Ansible
- Have in-depth experience utilizing modern observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or similar
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
FlexBase adapts to your job's needs
Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a similar field, or equivalent experience
- Deep experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable production services using Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies
- Solid understanding of Linux internals, containerization, and networking
- Code-first approach to infrastructure operations, automation, and toil reduction
- Knowledge of the Go programming language
- Comfort using Python or Bash for scripting
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Crossplane, Pulumi, Terraform, or Ansible
- In-depth experience with modern observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or similar
- Experience with self-hosted or managed Kubernetes environments
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.
Akamai Technologies Insights
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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