Senior II Site Reliability Engineer - Network
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About the Position
Are you passionate about cutting-edge technology? Do you enjoy working with a diverse, multi-national team of engineering talents? Join our highly skilled Site Reliability 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
As a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer - Network, you will be responsible for:
- Partnering across teams to ensure the reliability, scalability, and usability of our network infrastructure, products, and services.
- Defining requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence new designs and standards.
- Developing automation pipelines to support development, testing, and deployment workflows.
- Defining SLOs for network infrastructure within the Akamai Connected Cloud to ensure high availability and performance.
- Working with Dev and Quality Assurance teams to create more robust solutions, code improvement, and stability.
- Serving as a mentor to team members, driving code quality standards, and providing thought leadership on architectural decisions.
Requirements
To be successful in this role, you will:
- Have 8+ years of experience and a Bachelor's diploma in Computer Science or its equivalent.
- Have experience in a Site or Network Reliability Engineering, Network Engineering, Software Engineering, or DevOps role working with large-scale distributed systems.
- 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 an understanding of networking such as TCP/IP, OSI model, and Cisco or Juniper routers and switches.
- Have experience developing applications, contributing to codebases, conducting code review, and writing scripts using languages such as Python, Bash, or Go.
- Have experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions, ArgoCD, or similar.
We Offer
- Competitive salary ranging from $146,400 - $263,600/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.
- Flexible work arrangements through Akamai's FlexBase program.
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 Info
- Job Identification: 3467
- Posting Date: 08/03/2026, 10:48 AM
- Locations: 145 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, 02142, US (Remote)
- Citizenship required: No
- Is Security Clearance required: No
- Employment Type: Full-time
- Experience Level: Senior
- Work Location Type: Remote
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Akamai provides cloud services for delivering, optimizing and securing content and business applications over the Internet. As a global leader in content delivery network, or CDN services, the goal is to make the Internet faster, more reliable and more secure for customers and users around the world from many different industries. Akamai makes it easier for businesses around the world to deliver the best and most secure digital experiences, faster performance, stronger security, or seamless media delivery.The Akamai Intelligent Platform is a global network of specialized cloud servers that accelerate and secure the delivery of web content and web applications on behalf of many of the world’s leading brands.The Akamai Intelligent Platform is a distributed cloud computing platform that operates worldwide. It is a network of over 350,000 servers deployed in more than 135 countries. These servers reside in more than 1,500 of the world’s networks gathering real-time information about traffic, congestion, and trouble spots.