Principal Site Reliability Engineer

About the Position

Are you passionate about cutting-edge technology? Are you looking for the freedom to innovate and help shape the next generation of the network? Join our Network Infrastructure SRE team!

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.

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 cross-functional teams on standards and processes for deployments and updating documentation accordingly.
• Building, testing, and 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.

Requirements

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

We Offer

• Competitive salary ranging from $169,300 - $304,700/year.
• Comprehensive benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family-friendly benefits including parental leave, and an employee assistance program focusing on mental and financial wellness.
• FlexBase program allowing flexible work arrangements (home, office, or a combination of both).

About the Company

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day. Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:

• Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
• Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
• Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
• AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Job Information

• Job Identification: 3795
• Posting Date: 09/16/2026, 01:45 PM
• Locations: 145 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, 02142, US (Remote)
• Citizenship required: No
• Security Clearance required: No
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Experience Level: Senior
• Work Location Type: Remote