Are you passionate about cutting edge technology?
Do solving some of the Internet's most difficult content delivery challenges interest you?
Join our highly skilled Site Reliability 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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The Senior Engineer creates solutions to improve automation and efficiency for systems and teams. Responsibilities include optimizing workflows, infrastructure, and applications. Expertise in Linux administration, configuration management, and performance tuning is essential. Collaborate on deployment, monitoring, and resolving incidents. Focus on reliability, scalability, and efficiency through automation and resource optimization. Promote continuous improvement and operational excellence across all systems.
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be:
Providing support and mentorship for other engineers within the department
Developing and maintaining automated tools and scripts to enhance system reliability, deployment processes, and incident response efficiency.
Improving our system monitoring to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability of virtualization platform
Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues
Writing automation and tooling to reduce operational toil, improve deployment safety, and accelerate incident response
Contributing to capacity planning, autoscaling configuration, and workload scheduling for AI compute infrastructure
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
Possess expert level experience in a SysAdmin (Linux/Unix Administration), DevOps or SRE role, working with large scale distributed systems
Demonstrate expertise in Kubernetes and large-scale containerization systems.
Possess at least one programming language (Python/Golang) and configuration management with Terraform/SaltStack/Ansible
Define SLOs and work with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing to enhance system monitoring.
Have experience with architecting software and infrastructure at scale
Demonstrate accountability for reliability, develop automation and monitoring, and collaborate effectively with an engineering team unfamiliar with SRE practices.
Build your career at Akamai
Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We’re doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn, grow and have a meaningful impact.
With our company moving so fast, it’s important that you’re able to build new skills, explore new roles, and try out different opportunities. There are so many different ways to build your career at Akamai, and we want to support you as much as possible. We have all kinds of development opportunities available, from programs such as GROW and Mentoring, to internal events like the APEX Expo and tools such as Linkedin Learning, all to help you expand your knowledge and experience here.
Learn more
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Skills Required
- Expert-level experience in Linux or Unix administration, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering
- Experience working with large-scale distributed systems
- Expertise in Kubernetes and large-scale containerization systems
- Proficiency in at least one programming language, including Python or Golang
- Experience with configuration management using Terraform, SaltStack, or Ansible
- Experience defining service-level objectives and using observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing
- Experience architecting software and infrastructure at scale
- Experience developing automation and monitoring and collaborating with engineering 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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