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 do this while maintaining Akamai's mission at the forefront of what we do: make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.
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As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer II in the Virtualization & Host Platforms (VHP) Linux Performance team, you will be at the forefront of Akamai Cloud platform software and hardware technologies. Our team is responsible for identifying performance bottlenecks and creating the supporting tooling to aid in these investigations. We work with all physical, virtual and containerized Linux platform software supporting the Akamai Cloud. We collaborate closely with the kernel and hardware teams to ensure newer kernels and operating systems are performant and qualified on new server builds.
You will have opportunities to write software automating our processes, help diagnose and resolve challenging production issues, advance initiatives to improve resource utilization and customer experience, and learn from a highly skilled engineering team. This position will require creative thinking combined with deep domain expertise in the areas of Linux systems engineering, performance tuning, hardware interfaces, systems administration, and configuration management.
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Developing, testing, and distributing changes to automation, software, services, and tools the VHP team is responsible for.
- Designing and implementing enhancements to VHP observability infrastructure in order to identify and correct problems before they impact our customers.
- Comfortable working in new tooling, code and environments and automating what’s possible.
- Create supporting tooling using Ansible or Profiling to aide in performance investigations.
- Developing subject matter expertise in various components across our Compute environment.
- Collaborating with our support, operations and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems
- Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Possess expert level experience in Linux internals, system administration, and a deep understanding of underlying hardware
- Possess advanced level experience with the Linux kernel, OS, and optimization of their configurations for KVM/QEMU virtualization
- Possess advanced level experience with designing, developing, and deploying software and infrastructure at scale
- Advanced level experience in a Development or SRE role, preferably working with large scale distributed systems.
- Experience with tools like SaltStack, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Kubernetes for managing infrastructure at scale
- Have great communication and collaborative skills.
- Have relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.
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.
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Skills Required
- Expert level experience in Linux internals and system administration
- Advanced experience with the Linux kernel and OS optimization for virtualization
- Experience in a Development or SRE role with large scale distributed systems
- Experience with automation tools like Ansible, SaltStack, Chef, Puppet, or Kubernetes
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
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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