Site Reliability Engineer II

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join the Mapping SRE team in Kraków. You will reduce toil by writing code to automate operations, build scalable systems, and enhance network observability across Akamai’s global backbone.

You will partner with Architecture, Engineering and Ops to identify improvements, design robust solutions, and advance CI/CD pipelines and instrumentation. A strong focus on software-driven reliability and scalable infrastructure awaits.

Qualifications

• Proficient in building reliable distributed systems and automating operations.
• Strong understanding of incident management and post-mortems.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and tracing to drive reliability.

Responsibilities

• Design and build systems that support automated operational workflows and provide deep insights into the global network data.
• Identify bottlenecks in operations caused by inefficiencies, toil, and technical debt.
• Generate telemetry data and observability for network infrastructure.
• Architect code to be self-sustainable, robust and maintainable with a focus on CI/CD, TDD, and iterative design.
• Support and deploy cloud-native software using an infrastructure as code paradigm.

Skills

CI/CD

Observability

Telemetry

SRE practices

Software development

Job description

Do you have a passion for network automation?

Do you want to help scale a global platform?

Join the Mapping SRE team

Our team supports Akamai’s global backbone and networking technologies by solving operational challenges through code. This position focuses on reducing toil through code, improving our ability to build and scale. As an SRE, you will be a crucial part of our ability to deliver global infrastructure connectivity for the next generation of Akamai’s services.

Partner with the best

Our SRE team sits directly next to Architecture, Engineering and Ops. We are tasked with identifying the biggest areas for improvement and are responsible for designing and building solutions. With a focus on software, you will be directly responsible for continuously improving Akamai’s ability to monitor and operate our backbone.

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

• Designing and building systems that support automated operational workflows and provide deep insights into our global network data
• Identifying and eliminate bottlenecks in operational workflows caused by process inefficiencies, manual toil, and technical debt
• Generating telemetry data and deep observability for network infrastructure
• Architecting our code to be self-sustainable, robust and easily maintainable, focusing on CI/CD, test-driven development, and iterative design
• Supporting and deploying cloud-native, third party software utilizing an infrastructure as code paradigm

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Contribute to the design and implementation of full stack systems, utilizing appropriate tools and frameworks for a given task
• Identify operational inefficiencies and develop software solutions to help relieve process bottlenecks.
• Maintain and enhance network telemetry and automation software stacks, including source of truth systems, metric agents, time-series databases, dashboarding, and alerting.
• Apply software and SDLC best practices consistently, supporting greater development efficiency within a collaborative team.
• Develop a strong understanding of global, complex, interconnected systems and proactively contribute to their reliability.

Build your career at Akamai

Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We’re doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn, grow and have a meaningful impact.

With our company moving so fast, it’s important that you’re able to build new skills, explore new roles, and try out different opportunities. There are so many different ways to build your career at Akamai, and we want to support you as much as possible. We have all kinds of development opportunities available, from programs such as GROW and Mentoring, to internal events like the APEX Expo and tools such as Linkedin Learning, all to help you expand your knowledge and experience here.