Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Linux Performance) - Remote

Akamai Technologies; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Well-being support

FlexBase program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer II in Kraków, Poland. This role involves developing and optimizing software and infrastructure for Akamai’s Cloud platform, focusing on performance and automation.

The ideal candidate will have expert Linux systems knowledge, experience in large-scale distributed systems, and skills in tools like Ansible and Kubernetes. The position offers flexibility in work arrangements through Akamai’s FlexBase program.

Qualifications

• Expert level experience in Linux internals and system administration.
• Advanced understanding of Linux kernel optimization for KVM/QEMU.
• Experience in a Development or SRE role with distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Developing changes to automation and software services.
• Implementing enhancements to observability infrastructure.
• Collaborating to troubleshoot complex problems.

Skills

Linux internals

System administration

Performance tuning

Ansible

Kubernetes

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

SaltStack

Chef

Puppet

Job description

Job Description

Join our highly skilled Site Reliability Engineering team. Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai’s Compute products and services while maintaining our mission: make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.

Role Overview

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer II in the Virtualization & Host Platforms (VHP) Linux Performance team you will be at the forefront of Akamai Cloud platform software and hardware technologies. Our team is responsible for identifying performance bottlenecks and creating the supporting tooling to aid in these investigations. We work with all physical, virtual, and containerized Linux platform software supporting the Akamai Cloud. We collaborate closely with the kernel and hardware teams to ensure newer kernels and operating systems are performant and qualified on new server builds.

You will have opportunities to write software automating our processes, help diagnose and resolve challenging production issues, advance initiatives to improve resource utilization and customer experience, and learn from a highly skilled engineering team. This position requires creative thinking combined with deep domain expertise in Linux systems engineering, performance tuning, hardware interfaces, systems administration, and configuration management.

Responsibilities

• Developing, testing, and distributing changes to automation, software, services, and tools the VHP team is responsible for.
• Designing and implementing enhancements to VHP observability infrastructure to identify and correct problems before they impact customers.
• Working with new tooling, code, and environments, and automating what’s possible.
• Creating supporting tooling using Ansible or profiling to aid in performance investigations.
• Developing subject matter expertise in various components across our Compute environment.
• Collaborating with support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems.
• Participating in on‑call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service‑impacting issues.

Qualifications

• Expert level experience in Linux internals, system administration, and a deep understanding of underlying hardware.
• Advanced level experience with the Linux kernel, OS, and optimization of their configurations for KVM/QEMU virtualization.
• Advanced level experience designing, developing, and deploying software and infrastructure at scale.
• Experience in a Development or SRE role, preferably with large scale distributed systems.
• Experience with tools like SaltStack, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Kubernetes for managing infrastructure at scale.
• Strong communication and collaborative skills.
• Relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.

Benefits

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. FlexBase adapts to your job’s needs. Akamai’s FlexBase program supports employees to work in ways best suited for them, including home, office, or a combination of both. See our benefits.