Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?
Do you have a passion for cutting edge technologies?
Join our highly skilled Site Reliability Engineering team!
Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai Cloud's products and services. Our SRE teams solve reliability, security, and usability at scale for our global fleet while maintaining Akamai's mission at the forefront of what we do: make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.
Partner with the best
As a member of our ACDC SRE team, you will design, develop, and operate application and infrastructure deployment, configuration, and change orchestration for the Akamai Cloud.
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be:
- Designing, developing, testing, and operating essential services to enhance the reliability, scalability, and performance of infrastructure systems.
- Designing and implementing observability solutions, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and telemetry, to identify and address issues before customer impact.
- Enhancing reliability via automation, minimizing operational toil, and boosting resilience within engineering processes.
- Developing extensive expertise in ACDC systems and acting as a reliable resource, guiding engineers and sharing effective practices team-wide.
- Collaborating closely with software engineering, infrastructure, and platform teams to resolve complex production issues, determine root causes, and implement solutions.
- Participating in an on-call rotation and delivering technical expertise during incidents, ensuring prompt restoration, clear communication, and post-incident enhancements.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Demonstrate expertise in Ansible through playbook development, role creation, automation workflows, and enterprise-scale configuration management processes.
- Manage Infrastructure as Code solutions utilizing tools like Terraform, SaltStack, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or comparable technologies effectively and efficiently.
- Design, develop, and deploy software and infrastructure at scale within a Linux environment with advanced-level expertise.
- Demonstrate advanced experience in a site reliability or software engineering role, working with large-scale distributed systems.
- Have great communication and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrate accountability for reliability, develop automation and monitoring, and collaborate effectively with an engineering team unfamiliar with SRE practices.
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
- Expertise in Ansible including playbook development, role creation, and automation workflows
- Experience managing Infrastructure as Code with tools like Terraform, SaltStack, Chef, Puppet, or similar
- Advanced-level Linux administration and deploying software/infrastructure at scale
- Advanced experience in site reliability or software engineering working with large-scale distributed systems
- Designing and implementing observability solutions (monitoring, logging, alerting, telemetry)
- Ability to develop automation to reduce operational toil and improve resilience
- Participation in on-call rotation and incident response with clear communication and post-incident improvements
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams
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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