Senior Site Reliability Engineer Lead — Remote & Automation

Akamai

United States

Remote

USD 121,000 - 219,000

Full time

4 hours ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare
401K savings plan
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
Paid time off

Job summary

Akamai is seeking a Senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer in a remote role for our compute infrastructure and services. You will focus on automation, performance tuning, and scalable hardware/software architectures while guiding incident response and on-call rotations.

You will define requirements across the product lifecycle, mentor teams, and develop SLOs/KPIs in collaboration with Engineering, Product, and Support. Strong Linux and distributed systems experience are essential.

Qualifications

  • 5 years of relevant experience in a development, sysadmin, or SRE role.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.

Responsibilities

  • Define requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence designs and standards.
  • Provide support, leadership and motivation for project teams.
  • Create and maintain SLOs and KPIs with Engineering, Product and Support teams.
  • Engage with support, operations, hardware and engineering to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems, including incident management and post-mortems.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, guiding restoration of service-impacting issues.

Skills

Linux
hardware
performance tuning
SRE experience
on-call leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Akamai is seeking a Senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer in a remote role for our compute infrastructure and services. You will focus on automation, performance tuning, and scalable hardware/software architectures while guiding incident response and on-call rotations.

You will define requirements across the product lifecycle, mentor teams, and develop SLOs/KPIs in collaboration with Engineering, Product, and Support. Strong Linux and distributed systems experience are essential.

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