Akamai Technologies · 18 hours ago
Site Reliability Engineer II
Cambridge, MA
Full-time
Hybrid
Entry, Mid Level
$95K/yr - $171K/yr
2+ years expAkamai Technologies is a leader in powering and protecting life online. The Site Reliability Engineer II will collaborate across teams to enhance system reliability, develop observability tools, and troubleshoot complex issues, ensuring the performance of Akamai's services.
Cyber SecurityDigital MediaSaaSSoftwareVideo Streaming
Responsibilities
Deploying and maintaining our observability platform and internal tooling
Partnering across teams to ensure the reliability, scalability and usability of our products and services
Providing guidance to engineers and developers to increase confidence that their services are performing as expected
Collaborating with our support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems
Improving our system monitoring and analysis platforms to ensure rapid error detection and remediation, including developing automated remediations
Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues
Qualification
Required
Have 2 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent
Have professional experience in a Site Reliability, Development, or SysAdmin role, working with large-scale distributed systems
Have in-depth experience working with modern observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or similar
Be familiar with distributed queueing technologies such as Kafka, RedPanda, NATS, or similar
Have experience with containerization technologies such as Docker or Podman and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
Have experience developing applications and scripts using languages such as Go, Python, Bash, Rust, or similar
Have familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi
Have experience with continuous integration / continuous deployment tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions, or similar
Benefits
Healthcare
401K savings plan
Company holidays
Vacation (in the form of PTO)
Sick time
Family friendly benefits including parental leave
Employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness
Company
Akamai Technologies
Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.63BKey Investors
IVP
2025-05-14Post Ipo Debt· $1.5B
2023-08-15Post Ipo Debt· $1.1B
2001-08-01Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
Tom Leighton
Chief Executive Officer
Charlie Gero
CTO
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