Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamais Compute products and services. We do this while maintaining Akamais mission at the forefront of what we do : make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.

Partner with the best

As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer in the Virtualization & Host Platforms (VHP) team, you will be at the forefront of Akamai Cloud and Delivery fleet platform hardware and software host technologies. Our team is responsible for all physical and virtual Linux platform software, working closely with hardware teams to define and enable new server builds, and investigating Linux performance issues company-wide.

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

• Architecting, developing, testing, and distributing changes to software, services, and tools the VHP team is responsible for.
• Designing and implementing enhancements to VHP observability infrastructure in order to identify and correct problems before they impact our customers
• Developing subject matter expertise in VHP components and mentoring the team.
• Identifying and implementing automation best practices for existing products and processes
• Collaborating with our support, operations and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems
• Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will :

FlexBase, Akamais 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.

We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

At Akamai, were 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, youll 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 :