Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Do you enjoy solving complex reliability challenges for cutting-edge technology?

Do you have a passion for automation and building systems that scale?

Join the Akamai Inference Cloud Team

The Akamai Inference Cloud team is part of Akamai's Cloud Technology Group. We design, implement, deploy and operate AI platforms that enable customers to run inference models and developers to create AI applications with unmatched performance, compliance, and economics.

Partner with the best

As a Senior SRE, responsibilities include owning reliability workstreams for Akamai's serverless inference platform, building automation and tooling, and contributing to architecture and operational decisions. Opportunities exist to take ownership of critical reliability problems end-to-end, partner with product engineering teams, and develop expertise in GPU infrastructure, Kubernetes at scale, and AI inference workloads.

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

• Building and maintaining observability for AI workloads, including telemetry, dashboards, alerts, SLO/SLI tracking, and driving improvements when targets are missed
• Writing automation and tooling to reduce operational toil, improve deployment safety, and accelerate incident response
• Integrating AI workloads into Akamai's existing incident management processes, building runbooks, participating in on-call rotations, and conducting blameless post-mortems
• Building and maintaining CI/CD integrations, deployment safety checks, and rollback automation
• Collaborating with product engineering teams to improve reliability, contribute to architecture decisions, and ensure operational readiness for product releases
• Contributing to capacity planning, autoscaling configuration, and workload scheduling for AI compute infrastructure

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Demonstrate expertise in SRE, infrastructure, or platform engineering, managing large-scale distributed systems with extensive operational experience.
• Demonstrate expertise in Kubernetes and large-scale containerization systems.
• Define SLOs and work with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing to enhance system monitoring.
• Demonstrate proficiency in Python or Go for automation, CI/CD pipelines, deployment safety, and infrastructure-as-code like Terraform.
• Interest in or experience with AI/ML infrastructure, model serving, or GPU workloads
• Resolve issues independently while maintaining accountability throughout the process.
• Demonstrate accountability for reliability, develop automation and monitoring, and collaborate effectively with an engineering team unfamiliar with SRE practices.

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.

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

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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!