Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Akamai•Cambridge, MA

4d•$169,300 - $304,700•Hybrid

About The Position

Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We specialize in building and maintaining fast, efficient, scalable, and reliable routing software and infrastructure that is responsible for all network delivery to Akamai Connected Cloud customers. In this role, you will collaborate across software development, operations teams and Akamai Compute stakeholders. You'll be instrumental in developing organizational standards and tooling to ensure the growth and stability of our global platform.

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

Architecting, building and supporting solutions that foster efficient and streamlined processes.
Serving as a subject matter expert and mentor to team members, driving code quality standards and providing thought leadership on architectural decisions.
Collaborating with the cross-functional teams on standards and processes for deployments and updating documentation accordingly
Building/testing/designing automation tools (including Bash scripts, Python programs, Slack bots) and working closely with network developers
Defining SLOs for network infrastructure within the Akamai Connected Cloud to ensure high availability and performance.
Collaborating with our support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex network-related problems including participation in on-call rotations.