Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Akamai Technologies
Cambridge
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 169,300 - 304,700 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 12+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Mentorship","Thought leadership","Collaboration","Code review","Problem-solving"]

Design, build, and support SRE solutions for Akamai’s Network Infrastructure, partnering with software and operations teams to improve standards, tooling, deployments, and documentation. Serve as a subject-matter expert and mentor while defining SLOs to ensure high availability and performance for network delivery. Develop and automate systems using scripts and applications, collaborating across teams to troubleshoot complex network issues and participate in on-call rotations.

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Principal Site Reliability Engineer

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Job Summary

Design, build, and support SRE solutions for Akamai’s Network Infrastructure, partnering with software and operations teams to improve standards, tooling, deployments, and documentation. Serve as a subject-matter expert and mentor while defining SLOs to ensure high availability and performance for network delivery. Develop and automate systems using scripts and applications, collaborating across teams to troubleshoot complex network issues and participate in on-call rotations.
Location: Cambridge
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Architect, build, and support solutions to streamline and improve processes for network reliability.
  • •Serve as a subject-matter expert and mentor, driving code quality standards and architectural decisions.
  • •Collaborate with cross-functional teams on deployment standards and processes, and update documentation.
  • •Build and test automation tools, including scripts and applications for network infrastructure.
  • •Define network infrastructure SLOs and investigate/troubleshoot complex network issues, including on-call participation.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 169,300 - 304,700 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health Insurance401kCompany HolidaysPaid LeaveSick TimeParental LeaveEmployee Assistance

Key Requirements

  • •12+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • •Experience in Site or Network Reliability Engineering, Network Engineering, Software Engineering, or DevOps for large-scale distributed systems.
  • •Deep understanding of TCP/IP, BGP, load balancing, and firewall concepts.
  • •Advanced proficiency with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Salt Stack, Chef, or Puppet.
  • •Experience developing and reviewing code and scripts using Python, Bash, Go, or Rust, plus CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or ArgoCD.
Experience:12+ yearsDistributed systemsSite reliability engineeringNetwork reliability engineeringNetwork engineeringDevOps
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science
Skills:MentorshipThought leadershipCollaborationCode reviewProblem-solving
Tech Stack:PythonBashSlack botsLinuxTCP/IPBGPLoad balancingFirewallAnsibleSalt StackChefPuppetFRRBirdGoBGPGoRustJenkinsGitHub ActionsArgoCD

Company Brief

Akamai Technologies
Provides a global content delivery network (CDN) and cloud services to improve web and application performance, security, and delivery for enterprises, media companies, and cloud providers.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Cambridge, United States
Founded: 1998
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