Senior SRE: Cloud Compute & Hardware Platform (Hybrid)

Akamai Technologies; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

FlexBase program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies in Kraków seeks a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to advance our HIVE Server Enablement and Qualification efforts. You will shape the compute-platform strategy for x64, ARM, accelerators, and inference hardware, and lead CI/CD improvements for reproducible bare-metal provisioning across global datacenters.

You will drive reliability, observability, and incident expertise, mentoring engineers and establishing cross‑team standards while coordinating with vendor teams to

Qualifications

• Experience with Linux-based server platforms, boot processes, and diagnostics.
• Background in bare-metal provisioning, configuration management, and scalable automation.

Responsibilities

• Shape compute-platform strategy and qualification across hardware and firmware.
• Lead provisioning and CI/CD improvements for reproducible bare-metal deployment.
• Drive reliability, observability, telemetry, and safe rollout for production.
• Provide incident expertise to investigate HW/SW issues and guide engineering fixes.
• Mentor engineers, set standards, and resolve multi-domain issues across teams.

Skills

Linux expertise

Provisioning automation

Python & Bash

KVM & QEMU

Nested virtualization

VM networking & storage

Firmware debugging

Tools

libvirt

QEMU

KVM

Job description

Akamai Technologies in Kraków seeks a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to advance our HIVE Server Enablement and Qualification efforts. You will shape the compute-platform strategy for x64, ARM, accelerators, and inference hardware, and lead CI/CD improvements for reproducible bare-metal provisioning across global datacenters.

You will drive reliability, observability, and incident expertise, mentoring engineers and establishing cross‑team standards while coordinating with vendor teams to