Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Akamai Technologies is a leader in cloud computing, seeking a Site Reliability Engineer II to join their Inference Cloud Team. The role involves building and maintaining monitoring systems, writing automation to improve reliability, and collaborating with engineering teams to troubleshoot issues.
Responsibilities
- Building and maintaining dashboards, alerts, and monitoring for inference workloads using Akamai's existing observability platform
- Writing automation and tooling in Python or Go to reduce operational toil and improve system reliability
- Building and improving runbooks for inference-specific operational procedures, integrating into Akamai's existing incident management processes
- Contributing to SLO tracking and reporting, identifying trends and areas for improvement
- Supporting CI/CD pipeline maintenance, deployment safety checks, and rollback procedures
- Collaborating with product engineering teams to troubleshoot complex problems across the stack
- Participating in on-call rotations, responding to production incidents, and conducting blameless post-mortems
Skills
- 2+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering and a Bachelor's Degree or its equivalent experience
- Demonstrate coding ability in at least one programming language (Python or Go) with experience writing automation
- Experience with Linux systems administration and the ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and containerization concepts
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or similar
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, SaltStack, or equivalent)
- Willingness to learn and grow, with genuine curiosity about AI infrastructure and distributed systems
Benefits
- Incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives
- Equity awards
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Healthcare
- 401K savings plan
- Company holidays
- Vacation (in the form of PTO)
- Sick time
- Family friendly benefits including parental leave
- Employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply
- FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world
- FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised)
- This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere
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