Senior Site Reliability Engineer
$121.4k - $218.6kAkamai
Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?
Do you have a passion for automation and building systems that scale?
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
In this role, you'll be responsible for creating solutions to improve automation and efficiency for systems and teams. Expertise in Linux administration, configuration management, and performance tuning is essential. You'll collaborate on deployment, monitoring, and resolving incidents, with a high focus on reliability, scalability, and efficiency through automation and resource optimization.
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:
Developing and maintaining automated tools and scripts to enhance system reliability, deployment processes, and incident response efficiency.
Improving system monitoring, analysis and alerting to speed error detection and remediation
Building automation and tooling to reduce operational toil, improve deployment safety, and accelerate incident response
Contributing to capacity planning, autoscaling configuration, and workload scheduling for compute infrastructure
Investigating and analyzing platform components to identify opportunities to enhance stability and performance
Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues and providing support and mentorship for other engineers
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
Have 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
Have extensive experience with Linux/Unix operating systems and scripting, ideally with Bash, Python and Perl
Have good attention to detail and excellent problem solving/troubleshooting skill
Possess ability to work with the minutia of individual system classes as well as the larger strategic viewpoint of the interrelated pieces of the environment
Be able to work with and coordinate external teams in world-wide geos to maintain environment operational stability
Show hands-on experience with modern observability stacks and timeseries engines, like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Loki
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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Compensation
Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $121,400 - $218,600/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.
Equal Employment Opportunity Rights
Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.
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