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 critical SRE team
Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute, CDN, and security products and services. We specialize in creating solutions that help improve observability and enforce SLAs across all internal teams. We do all of this while maintaining Akamai's mission to make. life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.
Collaborate with others to build the best solutions for customers
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will perform system analysis and troubleshooting, assess performance and capacity of our platform, and make improvement recommendations. Having identified improvements, you'll work with engineering and the SRE teams to implement new features and products.
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Testing inefficiencies and fragilities and write software or infrastructure fixes.You must be fluent in both software code and IaC
- Designing and work with Engineering or the SRE team to build automation or provide self-service tools
- Leveraging skills in data analysis, network diagnostics and debugging tools to characterize performance and capacity of large-scale distributed systems
- Designing, managing and tracking of Akamai's platform related KPIs to identify trends and changes to improve performance
- Investigating proactively and analyzing platform performance to identify opportunities to maintain and enhance our advantage
- Collaborating with internal teams to help trouble-shoot and resolve escalations and incidents for our customers
- Working with cross-functional teams to gather customer requirements and influence how the business deploys and operates capacity
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have relevant experience and knowledge in Computer Science or another quantitative discipline
- Demonstrate experience in developing solutions Python, Bash, or other languages
- Demonstrate experience in internet protocols such as DNS, HTTP, TCP
- Have experience working with and analyzing complex systems in Linux, VM, and Kubernetes production environments
- Show excellent communication skills and articulate technical information in a clear and easy to understand manner
- Display excellent organization skills, managing priorities and multiple tasks
- Be a self-starter, proactively taking the initiative to solve problems and have a drive to improve results
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.
Learn what makes Akamai a great place to work
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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Skills Required
- Degree or relevant experience in Computer Science or another quantitative discipline
- Experience developing solutions using Python or Bash (or other languages)
- Fluency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and ability to write infrastructure fixes
- Experience with internet protocols: DNS, HTTP, TCP
- Experience operating and analyzing complex systems in Linux, Virtual Machines, and Kubernetes production environments
- Experience designing and building automation or self-service tools
- Skills in data analysis, network diagnostics, and debugging tools for performance characterization
- Excellent communication and organizational skills; ability to manage priorities and multiple tasks
- Self-starter with proactive problem-solving mindset and drive to improve results
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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