Senior II Site Reliability Engineer - Network
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 includes:
- 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.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will collaborate across software development, operations teams, and network infrastructure teams. You'll be instrumental in developing organizational standards and tooling to ensure the growth and stability of our global platform. You will be responsible for:
- Partnering across teams to ensure the reliability, scalability, and usability of our network infrastructure, products, and services.
- Defining requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence new designs and standards.
- Developing automation pipelines to support development, testing, and deployment workflows.
- Defining SLOs for network infrastructure within the Akamai Connected Cloud to ensure high availability and performance.
- Working with Dev and Quality Assurance teams to create more robust solutions, code improvement, and stability.
- Serving as a mentor to team members, driving code quality standards, and providing thought leadership on architectural decisions.
Requirements
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 8+ years of experience and a Bachelor's diploma in Computer Science or its equivalent.
- Have experience in a Site or Network Reliability Engineering, Network Engineering, Software Engineering, or DevOps role working with large-scale distributed systems.
- Have advanced proficiency with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Salt Stack, Chef, Puppet, or similar.
- Have experience with Linux networking at the userspace level and open source networking software such as FRR, Bird, or goBGP.
- Have an understanding of networking such as TCP/IP, OSI model, and Cisco or Juniper routers and switches.
- Have experience developing applications, contributing to codebases, conducting code review, and writing scripts using languages such as Python, Bash, or Go.
- Have experience with continuous integration / continuous deployment tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions, ArgoCD, or similar.
Benefits
We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. Benefits include:
- Industry-leading healthcare.
- 401K savings plan.
- Company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), and sick time.
- Family-friendly benefits including parental leave.
- Employee assistance program with a focus on mental and financial wellness.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
- Flexible work arrangements through Akamai's FlexBase program, supporting work from home, office, or a combination of both.
Eligibility requirements apply.
Pay
Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US-based candidates only, the base salary for this position ranges from $146,400 - $263,600/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.