Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We specialize in building and maintaining fast, efficient, scalable, and reliable routing software and infrastructure that is responsible for all network delivery to Akamai Connected Cloud customers.

In this role, you will collaborate across software development, operations teams and Akamai Compute stakeholders. You'll be instrumental in developing organizational standards and tooling to ensure the growth and stability of our global platform.

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

Architecting, building and supporting solutions that foster efficient and streamlined processes.

Serving as a subject matter expert and mentor to team members, driving code quality standards and providing thought leadership on architectural decisions.

Collaborating with the cross-functional teams on standards and processes for deployments and updating documentation accordingly

Building/testing/designing automation tools (including Bash scripts, Python programs, Slack bots) and working closely with network developers

Defining SLOs for network infrastructure within the Akamai Connected Cloud to ensure high availability and performance.

Collaborating with our support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex network-related problems including participation in on-call rotations.

To be successful in this role you will:

Have 12 years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent experience