Do you like collaborating across teams to solve complex problems?
Do you enjoy solving large scale distributed content delivery challenges?
Join our highly skilled Compute Site Reliability team
Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We specialize in creating solutions that help improve observability and enforce SLAs across all internal teams.
Partner with the best
As a Site Reliability Engineer Senior, you will collaborate across operations teams and application development teams. Together, you will be creating tooling and software that monitors and improves the reliability of our systems. You'll work with a diverse range of technologies as we release new applications and modernize existing tooling
As a Site Reliability Engineer Senior, you will be responsible for:
- Solving complex problems in a timely and accurate manner through proactive troubleshooting, automation and systems programming
- Deploying and maintaining our observability platform and internal tooling
- Partnering across teams to ensure the reliability, scalability and usability of our products and services
- Providing guidance to engineers and developers to increase confidence that their services are performing as expected
- Collaborating with our support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering
- Have 6 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or a related engineering role, with Linux system administration expertise.
- Have an understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing/switching, and storage concepts.
- Have hands-on experience with containerized environments and Kubernetes, including operating and troubleshooting production systems.
- Have knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices, with hands-on experience using tools such as Jenkins, Git, Prometheus, and Grafana.
- Have experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, SaltStack, or similar tools; exposure to cloud storage systems
- Have automation/scripting skills using Python, Bash, Go, Rust, or similar languages.
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
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering
- Six years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or a related engineering role
- Linux system administration expertise
- Understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, switching, and storage concepts
- Hands-on experience with containerized environments and Kubernetes, including operating and troubleshooting production systems
- Knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices
- Hands-on experience with Jenkins, Git, Prometheus, and Grafana
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, SaltStack, or similar tools
- Exposure to cloud storage systems
- Automation and scripting skills using Python, Bash, Go, Rust, or similar languages
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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