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 is responsible for defining, measuring, & optimizing the key performance indicators of delivery customers. Your expertise in software engineering and systems administration will be instrumental in building robust and resilient infrastructure.

Partner with the best

Enhance system reliability, scalability, and performance by designing, implementing, and maintaining robust infrastructure and operational processes. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless deployment, monitoring, and incident response. Proactively identify and resolve system issues to support business continuity and growth. Advocate for automation and best practices to optimize system efficiency, availability, and security across the organization.

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.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including Product and engineering, to define and establish measurable Service Level Indicators and Objectives.
• Providing technical expertise and feedback to ensure system designs and implementations align with reliability and performance requirements effectively.
• Monitoring platform availability and performance, analyzing data to debug issues, and implementing corrective actions to prevent future occurrences.
• Developing and implementing automation solutions aimed at enhancing operational efficiency while minimizing repetitive tasks.
• Participating in design reviews and providing technical guidance to ensure designs meet requirements for scalability, performance, and robustness
• Staying updated on recent developments in cloud computing, DevOps, and SRE best practices without missing emerging trends.

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 Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Demonstrate expertise in scripting languages like Python, Bash, and JavaScript to enable automation and create efficient tools.
• Utilize monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ADBMS, and Datadog effectively for creating and managing dashboards.
• Work proficiently in UNIX/Linux environments, showcasing exceptional problem-solving abilities and comprehensive system expertise.
• Utilize Oracle SQL to perform data integrity checks, identify root causes of anomalies, and generate detailed reports.
• Improve outcomes, embrace ongoing learning, and deliver automation-centered operational excellence across various initiatives with proactive self-direction.
• Demonstrate customer focus, accountability, and exceptional communication and teamwork abilities across various cross-functional groups.

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.