Principal SRE Lead: Cloud-Native Control Plane

Akamai; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 250,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies GmbH's Cloud Technology Group's Compute division seeks a Principal Site Reliability Engineer Lead to shape the Next Generation Control Plane on Kubernetes and cloud-native tech. You will design, build, and scale highly available, distributed microservices to support massive-scale operations.

You will lead a team, define SLOs/KPIs, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Support teams to foster innovation and rapid development.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Methodical curiosity to untangle dependencies
• Deep experience building/operating highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable services with Kubernetes
• Solid Linux internals, containerization & networking knowledge
• Code-first approach to infrastructure automation
• Go programming with Python or Bash scripting
• Infrastructure as code tools (Crossplane, Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible)
• Modern observability tooling (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki)

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate a Golden Path platform built on Kubernetes and cloud-native tech
• Provide leadership, support, and mentoring to the team
• Create and maintain SLOs and KPIs in collaboration with Engineering, Product, and Support
• Participate in on-call rotations and guide service restoration
• Foster innovation, rapid development, and open communication

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud-native architectures

SRE leadership

SLOs & KPIs

On-call experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Crossplane

Pulumi

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Akamai Technologies GmbH's Cloud Technology Group's Compute division seeks a Principal Site Reliability Engineer Lead to shape the Next Generation Control Plane on Kubernetes and cloud-native tech. You will design, build, and scale highly available, distributed microservices to support massive-scale operations.

You will lead a team, define SLOs/KPIs, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Support teams to foster innovation and rapid development.