Senior Site Reliability Engineer Lead - Hybrid (Remote-Friendly)

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Salem (OR); Hybrid; USD 121,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K

ESPP

PTO

Parental leave

Flexible work options

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer to design, implement, and operate scalable infrastructure and services for compute products. You will drive automation, resilience, and performance across large distributed systems.

You will lead cross-functional teams, define requirements, and mentor engineers while contributing to on-call incident response and post-mortems. This role offers flexible work arrangements and strong compensation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.
• Experience architecting hardware, software, and infrastructure at scale.
• Expert-level experience in a Development or SysAdmin role with large-scale distributed systems.
• Ability to align with strategic business initiatives and coordinate other engineers.
• Excellent communication, mentorship, and interpersonal skills.
• Informed opinions on technology and software design.

Responsibilities

• Defining requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence new designs and standards.
• Providing support, leadership and motivation for project teams.
• Creating and maintaining SLOs and KPIs, collaborating with Engineering, Product, and Support teams.
• Engaging with support, operations, hardware, and engineering teams to troubleshoot complex problems, including incident management and post-mortem reviews.
• Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues.

Skills

Linux

Hardware

Performance tuning

SRE

Mentorship

On-call

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, CS or equivalent

Tools

None

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer to design, implement, and operate scalable infrastructure and services for compute products. You will drive automation, resilience, and performance across large distributed systems.

You will lead cross-functional teams, define requirements, and mentor engineers while contributing to on-call incident response and post-mortems. This role offers flexible work arrangements and strong compensation.