Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Akamai Technologies

. Contribute to the development and operation of a globally deployed, multi-tenant platform built on Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies .

Posted 9/30/2026full-timeRemote • PolandSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant production 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

Linux InternalsContainerizationNetworkingPython ScriptingBash ScriptingCrossplanePulumiTerraformAnsibleOpenTelemetry

Soft Skills

Methodical Curiosity

Tools & Technologies

PrometheusGrafanaLoki

Industry Keywords

Multi-Tenant PlatformSLOsKPIsMicroservices ArchitectureIncident Response

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleCloudGrafanaKubernetesLinuxMicroservicesPrometheusPythonTerraformGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Contribute to the 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
Provide technical and architectural leadership for designing, building, and scaling the Next Generation Control Plane
Lead transformation toward a highly available, resilient, distributed microservices architecture supporting massive-scale operations

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of relevant experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent experience
Experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable production services using Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies
Solid understanding of Linux internals, especially containerization and networking
Code-first approach to operating infrastructure
Knowledge of Go
Comfortable using 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
Ability to approach complex problems with methodical curiosity

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health, well-being, financial, and life benefits
FlexBase flexible work arrangements: work from home, in an office, or a combination of both