Principal Network Reliability Engineer

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Augusta (ME); On-site; USD 169,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K

Vacation PTO

Equity awards

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Parental leave

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Network to architect and maintain scalable, reliable network infrastructure for Akamai Connected Cloud. You will mentor teams, set standards, and drive automation across deployments with cross-functional partners.

You will define SLOs, collaborate on tooling, and contribute to codebases with Python, Bash, Go, or Rust, while participating in on-call rotations and incident response for complex network issues.

Qualifications

• 12 years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent experience.
• Experience in a Site or Network Reliability Engineering, Network Engineering, Software Engineering, or DevOps role with large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of TCP/IP, BGP, load balancing and firewall concepts.
• Advanced proficiency with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Salt Stack, Chef, Puppet, or similar.
• Experience with Linux networking at the userspace level and open source networking software such as FRR, Bird, or goBGP.
• Experience developing applications, contributing to codebases, conducting code reviews, and writing scripts using Python, Bash, Go, or Rust.
• Experience with continuous integration / continuous deployment tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions, ArgoCD, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build and support solutions that foster efficient and streamlined processes.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and mentor; drive code quality standards and architectural leadership.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on deployments and update documentation accordingly.
• Build, test and design automation tools (e.g., Bash scripts, Python programs, Slack bots) with network developers.
• Define SLOs for network infrastructure to ensure high availability and performance.
• Collaborate with support, operations and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex network-related problems, including on-call rotations.

Skills

TCP/IP

BGP

Load balancing

Firewall concepts

Python

Bash

Go

Rust

goBGP

FRR

Bird

Ansible

SaltStack

Chef

Puppet

Jenkins

Github Actions

ArgoCD

Code reviews

Linux

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Ansible

SaltStack

Chef

Puppet

FRR

Bird

goBGP

Jenkins

Github Actions

ArgoCD

Python

Go

Rust

Bash

Linux

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Network to architect and maintain scalable, reliable network infrastructure for Akamai Connected Cloud. You will mentor teams, set standards, and drive automation across deployments with cross-functional partners.

You will define SLOs, collaborate on tooling, and contribute to codebases with Python, Bash, Go, or Rust, while participating in on-call rotations and incident response for complex network issues.