Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Do you like collaborating across teams to solve complex problems?

Do you enjoy solving large scale distributed content delivery challenges?

Join our critical Platform and Reliability Engineering Team!

The Platform & Reliability Engineering team defines, measures, and optimizes key performance indicators for Akamai's global network. This role involves analyzing complex systems and identifying critical metrics for customer satisfaction. Collaboration with various teams addresses intricate problems requiring innovative solutions. Expertise in software engineering and systems administration supports building resilient and robust infrastructure.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, influence teams through expertise and support decision-making processes. Develop automation to streamline daily operations, escalations, and proactive monitoring efforts.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Working on Internet technologies to improve the performance, availability, and scalability of large distributed content delivery systems
• Design,Implement and tune monitoring and observability systems to meet defined SLIs and SLOs.
• Acting as an escalation point for support, platform and product teams to ensure system issues are resolved
• Leading incident response, utilizing coding, data analysis, network diagnostics, and debugging tools for distributed systems.
• Collaborating with support, operations, and engineering teams, investigating issues, and implementing solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Collaborating with engineering and product teams to enhance reliability, scalability, performance, and usability of offerings.
• Identifying potential problems and creating scalable solutions to ensure continuous improvements to QOS
• Staying updated on advancements in cloud computing, DevOps, and SRE best practices.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Require expertise in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field with 5+ experience in Site Reliability Engineering.
• Demonstrate expertise in coding and scripting languages such as C/C++, Python, Bash, JavaScript, etc.
• Demonstrate expert troubleshooting in UNIX/Linux environments, emphasizing scalability and reliability in distributed systems.
• Demonstrate expertise in internet protocols and networking: DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, UDP, TCP/IP, TLS/SSL.
• Gain expertise using observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ADBMS, Datadog for SLI/SLO management.
• Demonstrate expertise in containerization, orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), and cloud platforms (Azure, Databricks).

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.

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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!