Senior II Site Reliability Engineer

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

FlexBase

Hybrid/Remote-friendly

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer to lead the Next Generation Control Plane on our Akamai Cloud. You will design, build, and scale highly available microservices across a globally deployed, multi-tenant platform using Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies.

We value a code-first approach to operating infrastructure, extensive Go experience, and strong scripting skills. Join a collaborative team focused on reliability, performance, and rapid innovation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or similar field) or equivalent experience.
• Approach complex problems with methodical curiosity and understand dependencies.
• Experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant production services using Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies.
• Solid understanding of Linux internals, containers, networking, and related tech.
• Code-first approach to operating infrastructure, with automation to reduce toil.
• Go programming language; scripting with Python or Bash.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools (Crossplane, Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible).
• Experience using modern observability tooling (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki).

Responsibilities

• Contribute to development and operation of a globally-deployed, multi-tenant platform on Kubernetes and cloud-native tech.
• Build automation and tooling to reduce toil, improve deployment safety, and speed incident response.
• Create and maintain SLOs and KPIs, in collaboration with Engineering, Product, and Support teams.
• Participate in on-call rotations and guide restoration of service-impacting issues.
• Foster an environment that supports innovative solutions and rapid development cycles.

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud-native

Go

Python

Linux internals

Infrastructure as code

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

IaC tooling

Job description

Would delivering the control plane that powers a public cloud excite you? Are you passionate about pushing the limits of scale for cloud-native technologies? Join our Compute Team! Akamai's Cloud Technology Group's Compute division formerly Linode, now Akamai Cloud consists of collaborative, inclusive, and creative teams. We develop applications and services to empower our customers. Our mission is to accelerate innovation by making cloud computing simple, scalable, affordable, and accessible to all. We design, develop, test and maintain products that run on our IaaS platform.

Shape the future of Akamai Cloud

With your expertise in Kubernetes and Cloud-Native technologies, you will provide technical and architectural leadership to design, build, and scale our Next Generation Control Plane. You will lead the transformation toward a highly available, resilient, and distributed microservices architecture designed to support massive-scale operations seamlessly.

Responsibilities

• Contributing to the development and operation of a globally-deployed, multi-tenant platform built on Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies
• Building automation and tooling to reduce operational toil, improve deployment safety, and accelerate incident response
• Creating and maintaining SLOs and KPIs, collaborating with Engineering, Product, and Support teams
• Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues
• Working in an environment that fosters innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication

Do What You Love

• Have 8+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or similar field) or equivalent experience
• Approach complex problems with methodical curiosity, eager to untangle complex webs of dependencies to gain understanding
• Have prior experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable production services using Kubernetes (ideally self-hosted/managed) and other cloud-native technologies
• Have a solid understanding of Linux internals, especially containerization and networking as well as the technologies that support it
• Take a code-first approach to operating infrastructure, effectively eliminating toil through code fixes and automation
• Be knowledgeable of the Go programming language and comfortable leveraging Python or Bash for scripting needs
• Be familiar using infrastructure as code tools like Crossplane, Pulumi, Terraform or Ansible
• Have in-depth experience utilizing modern observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or similar

About Us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.

Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our Focus Is Simple

Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.

Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.

Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.

AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai

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