Site Reliability Engineer

About the role

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. We solve reliability, security, and usability at scale for our global fleet while maintaining Akamai's mission: make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.

In this role, you will focus on configuration management, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and CI/CD. You will design, develop, and operate infrastructure deployment for the Akamai Cloud.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and operate critical services that support the reliability, scalability, and performance of our infrastructure.
• Design and implement observability solutions, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and telemetry capabilities, to proactively detect and resolve issues.
• Drive reliability improvements through automation, reducing operational toil and increasing the resilience of engineering processes.
• Develop technical expertise in IaC systems and serve as a trusted technical resource, mentoring engineers and sharing best practices.
• Collaborate with software engineering, infrastructure, and platform teams to investigate complex production issues, identify root causes, and implement long-term corrective actions.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and provide leadership during incident response, driving timely service restoration, effective communication, and post-incident improvement efforts.

Requirements

• Relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.
• Experience in a Site Reliability or Software Engineering role, working with large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with Terraform, including module development, state management, workspace design, policy enforcement, and enterprise-scale Infrastructure as Code implementations.
• Experience managing Infrastructure as Code solutions using tools such as Terraform, SaltStack, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or similar technologies.
• Experience designing, developing, and deploying software and infrastructure at scale in a Linux environment.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

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. Behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge—and we're the ones who solve it.

Benefits

We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. Benefits include:

• Industry-leading healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (PTO), and sick time.
• Family-friendly benefits, including parental leave and an employee assistance program with a focus on mental and financial wellness.
• FlexBase program, allowing you to work in ways that suit you best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
• Incentive compensation opportunities, including annual bonus or incentives, equity awards, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).

Eligibility requirements apply.

Pay

For US-based candidates, the base salary for this position ranges from $75,700 to $136,300 per year. A candidate’s salary is determined by various factors, including 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 bonuses or incentives and equity awards.