Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Akamai Technologies

. Provide technical and architectural leadership for the design, development, and scaling of the Next Generation Control Plane .

Posted 9/30/2026full-timeRemote • PolandSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and operating scalable, fault-tolerant services using Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies, with a strong focus on automation, observability, and microservices architecture.

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KubernetesCloud-Native TechnologiesGo ProgrammingInfrastructure-As-CodeObservability Tooling

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Hard Skills

Microservices ArchitectureLinux InternalsPython ScriptingBash ScriptingAutomation Tools

Soft Skills

CollaborationTechnical Leadership

Tools & Technologies

OpenTelemetryPrometheusGrafanaLokiCrossplanePulumiTerraformAnsible

Industry Keywords

Highly Available ServicesFault-Tolerant SystemsMulti-Tenant PlatformSLOsKPIs

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleCloudGrafanaKubernetesLinuxMicroservicesPrometheusPythonTerraformGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide technical and architectural leadership for the design, development, and scaling of the Next Generation Control Plane
Lead transformation toward a highly available, resilient, distributed microservices architecture
Contribute to development and operation of a globally deployed, multi-tenant platform built on Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies
Build automation and tooling to reduce operational toil, improve deployment safety, and accelerate incident response
Create and maintain SLOs and KPIs
Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Support teams
Participate in on-call rotations and guide restoration and repair of service-impacting issues

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of relevant experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a similar field, or equivalent experience
Experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable production services using Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies
Working understanding of Linux internals, especially containerization and networking
Code-first approach to operating infrastructure
Knowledge of Go
Comfort leveraging Python or Bash for scripting
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Crossplane, Pulumi, Terraform, or Ansible
In-depth experience with observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or similar

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health, well-being, and financial support benefits
Flexible work arrangements through Akamai's FlexBase program: work at home, in an office, or a combination of both