Are you passionate about cutting-edge technology and ensuring customer success?

Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?

Join our critical Platform and Reliability Engineering team!

The Platform and Reliability Engineering team is responsible for defining, measuring, and optimizing the key performance indicators of our web and media customers. Working with engineering teams, we solve complex escalations as well as provide scalable solutions.

Collaborate with others to build the best solutions for customers

As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer, you will influence a wide array of teams through technical depth and breadth while enjoying a significant influence over front line teams in decision making. You will help account teams win their customer confidence by providing feedback to improve products and platform performance.

As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Working on a range of technologies to improve performance, availability and scalability
• Identifying potential problems to and creating scalable solutions to ensure continuous improvements to quality of service
• Working with Engineering teams to specify feature sets aimed at improving performance, facilitating measurement, monitoring, and benchmarking
• Using data analysis, network diagnostics and debugging tools to continuously monitor our network and content delivery environment

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent
• Demonstrate experience with internet protocols, (DNS, HTTP, TCP, TLS) and scripting languages,(Python, Perl, shell).
• Have experience working with and analyzing complex systems in UNIX/Linux distributed production environments
• Have familiarity with streaming technologies such as Encoding, Video Players, Media Security, Streaming Protocols, and Media Workflows
• Demonstrate analytical and quantitative capabilities with an ability to provide data-backed analysis
• Have excellent communication skills, able to articulate technical information in a clear and easy to understand manner
• Be a self starter, proactively taking the initiative to solving problems and a drive to improve results

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. 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. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

what makes Akamai a great place to work

We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

About us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!

Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.

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Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from $149,122 - $238,744/year; a candidate's salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading 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 including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.