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Deploy and operate scalable systems ensuring performance and automate cloud service deployments. | Bachelor's degree with five years experience and proficiency in cloud infrastructure, containerization, and automation tools. | Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer Work Location: 145 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142 Job Description: Akamai Technologies, Inc. is hiring for the following role in Cambridge, MA (multiple openings): Senior Site Reliability Engineer Perform site reliability engineering duties in furtherance of ensuring application and network performance, reliability and security for users of our platforms; deploy and operate scalable, highly available, and faulttolerant systems; analyze and improve the security, stability, speed, and capacity of our network; automate new cloud service deployments; monitor and troubleshoot cloud services to ensure SLA is met and adequate capacity is available; analyze logs and events from the cloud service and providing recommendations to ensure smooth service operation; work within large-scale cloud-based infrastructure; quickly identify and resolve infrastructure issues. Telecommuting permitted from anywhere within the United States. AG1475 #LI-DNI Required Qualification: Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Networking, IT, Information Systems, or Telecommunications & Network Engineering, plus two (2) years of experience in the job offered or closely related engineering role. Alternatively, will accept bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Networking, IT, Information Systems, or Telecommunications & Network Engineering, plus five (5) years of experience in the job offered or closely related engineering role. Must have: Two (2) years of experience with the following: Python, Bash, Ansible, Nagios, AWS CloudWatch, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, GitLab, Jenkins, Maven, Git, SVN, VMware vSphere, EC2, Splunk, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, Version Control, Log Analysis, Containerization, and Orchestration. About us 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. Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits. [https://www.akamai.com/careers/working-at-akamai?utm_source=akamai&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benefits] FlexBase adapts to your job's needs Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work. We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like! Compensation Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $186,160 - $218,600 /year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. 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.

Oversee and optimize AI hardware infrastructure with automation and incident management. | 5+ years experience, Bachelor's degree, proficiency in Python and observability stacks required. | Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges? Do you enjoy solving large scale distributed content delivery challenges? Join our critical AI Hardware SRE Team! The AI Hardware SRE team is responsible for overseeing, scaling, and optimizing our next-generation dedicated AI hardware infrastructure. You will be responsible for ensuring best-in-class uptime and reliability of our AI hardware infrastructure offerings. Partner with the best This position focuses on enhancing system reliability, scalability, and performance across high-density hardware and software infrastructure in regional data centers. Responsibilities include defining KPIs, proactive monitoring, automation, and urgent issue resolution. Collaboration with teams ensures best practices, reduced downtime, and optimized systems. The role supports seamless operations, business-critical applications, and improved user experiences through efficient, data-driven solutions. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for: * Developing and scaling robust programmatic tooling and infrastructure-as-code utilities in Python to eliminate operational toil and automate fleet-wide provisioning. * Integrating automated workflows across diverse corporate ticketing systems to enhance resolution times for hardware and network break-fix incidents. * Leveraging advanced AI tools and LLM-based development approaches to enhance technical execution, script creation, and comprehensive system evaluation. * Working on cutting-edge private cloud and compute technologies to improve the availability, latency, and overall systemic health of high-density hardware environments. * Designing and implementing telemetry pipelines, custom Prometheus/Grafana monitoring dashboards, and AI-based anomaly detection tailored for bare-metal and virtualized environments. * Participating in 24x7x365 on-call rotations, spearheading real-time incident management, and managing high-severity service disruption protocols via automated PagerDuty and Slack workflows. * Partnering directly with third-party infrastructure vendors and coordinating on-site field technicians to facilitate uptime activities Do what you love To be successful in this role you will: * Have 5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field * Demonstrate exceptional proficiency in tooling and coding using languages like Python to build scalable operational tools, API integrations, and automation frameworks. * Show hands-on experience with modern observability stacks and timeseries engines, like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Loki. * Possess a working understanding of advanced networking topologies, high-bandwidth routing/switching infrastructure, BGP, and dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 networks. * Demonstrate expertise as a primary designer for new service rollouts, establishing operational readiness criteria, telemetry baselines, and alerting thresholds. * Demonstrate extensive experience building technical runbooks, leading complex incident response bridges, and driving comprehensive, blameless post-mortems. * Demonstrate a proven ability to fully own ambiguous technical challenges, coordinate cross-functional teams, and drive toward production-grade solutions effectively. About us 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. Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits. [https://www.akamai.com/careers/working-at-akamai?utm_source=akamai&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benefits] FlexBase adapts to your job's needs Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work. We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like! 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Architect and automate global Kubernetes infrastructure with observability and disaster recovery tooling. | 2 years experience with Terraform and Kubernetes, Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent. | Are you passionate about architecting scalable Kubernetes systems using code? Do you want to drive observability and resiliency for global cloud infrastructure? Join our team! At Akamai, we build the digital foundation that keeps the internet running smoothly. Our engineering teams design resilient infrastructure to power global multi-region systems at massive scale. You will work alongside talented engineers in a collaborative and inclusive environment dedicated to innovation and reliability. Partner with the best As a Platform Infrastructure Engineer II, you will architect and automate the global multi-region substrate for Akamai Functions. You will ensure our Kubernetes environments are provisioned deterministically and fully observable. Additionally, you will build tooling to support developers and hand off stable platforms to SRE teams. As a Platform infrastructure Engineer II, you will be responsible for: • Architecting modular Terraform codebases to provision regional and global Kubernetes clusters deterministically • Packaging first-party infrastructure components using reliable, version-controlled manifests or custom Kubernetes operators • Engineering an observability foundation using OpenTelemetry and VictoriaMetrics for metrics, alerts, and tracing • Building disaster recovery tooling for seamless database backups, state replication, and rapid cluster recreation • Integrating new and existing shared Akamai infrastructure while transitioning away from legacy third-party systems • Supporting and expanding local and cloud-based development environments while collaborating with software engineers Do what you love To be successful in this role you will: • Have 2 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent • Have experience designing production-grade Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and managing Kubernetes environments • Possess solid skills in building observability pipelines with OpenTelemetry and metrics platforms • Have understanding of multi-region scaling and high-traffic system architecture • Be knowledgeable in developing, debugging, and supporting software application code alongside engineering teams About us 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. Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits. FlexBase adapts to your job's needs Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work. We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like! Compensation Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $95,000 - $171,000/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. 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.

Lead engineering teams to define strategy and architecture for customer-facing APIs and backend orchestration services, driving containerization and ensuring platform reliability and security. | Over 10 years experience with a bachelor's degree, proven leadership managing cloud engineering teams, and expertise in distributed systems, microservices, and containerized migrations. | Do you thrive on building the future of Compute platform and high-scale services? Are you prepared to guide a top-tier engineering team shaping the orchestration, security, and delivery of the Akamai Compute platform? Join the Cloud Compute Experience Team The Compute Cloud Experience team provides the integration layer for Akamai's Compute platform, supporting global infrastructure management. Core engineering teams develop services handling control plane requests, enabling data abstraction, configuration, and observability. Internal units like Support, SRE, and Trust & Safety use these tools to manage the cloud backplane. The team ensures the platform stays reliable, secure, and adaptable. Partner with the best We are hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to guide essential teams supporting the Akamai Compute platform's integration layer. This role involves shaping strategy, improving SDLC, and advancing service architecture. Responsibilities include overseeing Team Leads, Engineers, and Managers while delivering reliable, scalable, and secure solutions for diverse consumers. As a Senior Manager Engineering, you will be responsible for: * Driving the strategic direction and roadmap for Akamai Compute's customer-facing API and internal backend orchestration and support services. * Driving the architectural shift of these services to container orchestration and modular designs, enabling horizontal scalability and granular component ownership. * Establishing mechanisms to audit software lifecycles, enhancing service reliability, improving observability, and ensuring robust security for Akamai Compute. * Partnering with Product Management, SRE, Engineering leaders, SDET and various product teams to define requirements, integrate new features, and drive consistent, intuitive user experiences. * Fostering a growth-oriented, inclusive, and respectful culture. Mentor Senior and Principal engineers, drive technical leadership, and promote knowledge sharing across the organization. Do what you love To be successful in this role you will: * Have 10 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent * Demonstrate experience managing high-performing engineering teams in a cloud-engineering and web services environment * Possess background in architectural design, particularly with distributed systems, microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, and backend service integration. * Have track record of driving large-scale migrations, such as moving services to containerized orchestration or modularizing legacy systems to support business demand. * Have experience ensuring security, performance, and reliability (e.g., container scanning, managing single points of failure, disaster recovery planning) in mission-critical environments. * Have ability to communicate openly and respectfully, fostering a culture of ownership, integrity, and constructive collaboration across diverse stakeholders. About us 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. Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits. [https://www.akamai.com/careers/working-at-akamai?utm_source=akamai&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benefits] FlexBase adapts to your job's needs Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work. We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like! https://twitter.com/Akamai?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor https://www.facebook.com/akamaicareers/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/akamai-technologies/ https://www.instagram.com/akamaicareers/ https://www.akamai.com/blog? https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYo5nh8xQFpnnPl17sQRURR9ugKL-KMRO Compensation Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $173,900 - $313,100/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. 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.

Ensure reliability and scalability of global network infrastructure through collaboration, automation, and mentoring. | 8+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Network Engineering with proficiency in configuration management, Linux networking, and scripting languages. | 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. Partner with the best As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer II, you will collaborate across software development, operations teams and network infrastructure teams. You'll be instrumental in developing organizational standards and tooling to ensure the growth and stability of our global platform. You will be responsible for: As a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer, 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. * Collaborating with our support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex network-related problems including participation in on-call rotations. * Serving as a mentor to team members, driving code quality standards and providing thought leadership on architectural decisions. Do what you love To be successful in this role you will: * 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 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 About us 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. Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits. [https://www.akamai.com/careers/working-at-akamai?utm_source=akamai&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benefits] FlexBase adapts to your job's needs Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work. We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like! 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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.

Lead SRE teams by providing technical mentorship and driving partnerships across Engineering, Operations, and Product teams. | 8+ years experience, Bachelor's degree, strong statistical analysis, proficiency in coding languages, and deep knowledge of Internet protocols. | Are you passionate about cutting edge technology? Do solving some of the Internet's most difficult content delivery challenges interest you? Join our SRE team! Our team uses large datasets to analyze and measure the performance and reliability of our platform. We are networking data scientists: we combine our knowledge of data analysis, networking and distributed systems to define key performance indicators for our platform, determine how different factors impact them, and devise opportunities for improvement. Partner with the best In this role, you'll apply statistical data analysis and an understanding of networking protocols to diagnose and solve some of the Internet's most difficult content delivery challenges. You'll work with cross-functional teams to understand and measure the performance and reliability of our platform and products to influence their evolution. As a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for: * Leading SRE teams by providing technical mentorship, feedback and guidelines, and by organizing project-specific work. * Driving partnership with Engineering, Operations and Product teams to help guide adoption of new features and processes. * Applying analytical skills and statistical insights to identify performance bottlenecks and reliability challenges, and propose solutions. * Defining, implementing, mining data feeds drawn from 3rd party and internal sources to produce insights that influence company decision-making. * Influencing company decision-making at the highest levels to identify areas for new technology investments. * Building software tools and systems to automate analytical tasks and workflows to increase efficiency and reliability. Do what you love To be successful in this role you will: * 8+ years of experience and a Bachelor's diploma in Computer Science or its equivalent * Have an analytical background with experience in statistical data analysis * Demonstrate experience with coding in at least one following languages (python, perl, SQL, Java, C, R) * Have a proven ability to provide insightful and well-received technical feedback. * Have excellent communication and organizational skills and be able to articulate technical information in an easy-to-understand manner. * Possess experience with Internet protocols (DNS/HTTP/TLS/TCP). About us 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. Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits. 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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.

Assess and mitigate business risks by providing security design guidance and conducting security assessments based on NIST standards. | Bachelor's degree with over 5 years experience in network security or intrusion management, expertise in vulnerability mitigation, IaaS secure deployment, and FedRAMP or CMMC environments. | Do you like building solutions to help improve the security of the company? Do you want to collaborate with industry-leading security experts? Join our Information Security Team! Akamai's Information Security team is responsible for safeguarding Akamai, its customers, and the Internet worldwide. You will report directly to the Director of Security Engineering. You will have the opportunity to address global security challenges and make the Internet a safer place. which is powered by the scale of Akamai's platform and influence. Partner with the best As a Senior Security Engineer you will be assessing and mitigating the risk of doing business in today's hyper-connected world. . You will work directly with Akamai's IT and engineering organizations providing security design guidance for new and existing applications, systems and platforms. As a Senior Security Engineer, you will be responsible for: * Researching and staying current on adversarial techniques, emerging vulnerabilities, and related detection and response strategies. * Conducting network, application and system security assessments to identify risks and provide mitigation strategies. * Assisting with design and deployment of security risk mitigating controls. * Performing compliance and policy-based investigations of internal systems. * Documenting security guidelines, procedures, and policies with a particular emphasis on NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171. * Providing security guidance and consultation to Akamai business units. * Leveraging emerging AI capabilities to enhance new and existing processes and automation * Developing scripts and tools to support the above functions. Do what you love To be successful in this role you will: * Have 5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree * Have proven experience with network security analysis or intrusion management * Show experience with malware and vulnerability identification and mitigation * Have experience identifying software and application compromises and vulnerabilities * Have experience with the secure deployment and usage of infrastructure-as-a-service * Demonstrate experience working in a FedRAMP and/or CMMC certified environment About us 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. Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits. [https://www.akamai.com/careers/working-at-akamai?utm_source=akamai&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benefits] FlexBase adapts to your job's needs Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work. We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like! [https://app.role-mapper.com/images/twitter.png]https://twitter.com/Akamai?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor [https://app.role-mapper.com/images/facebook.png]https://www.facebook.com/akamaicareers/ [https://app.role-mapper.com/images/linkedin.png]https://www.linkedin.com/company/akamai-technologies/ [https://app.role-mapper.com/images/instagram.png]https://www.instagram.com/akamaicareers/ [https://app.role-mapper.com/images/blog.png]https://www.akamai.com/blog? [https://assets.role-mapper.com/images/youtube_new.png]https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYo5nh8xQFpnnPl17sQRURR9ugKL-KMRO Compensation Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $112,500 - $202,500/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. 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.

Oversee and optimize AI hardware infrastructure with automation and telemetry pipelines. | Bachelor's degree and 5+ years experience with Python, observability stacks, and networking. | Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges? Do you enjoy solving large scale distributed content delivery challenges? Join our critical AI Hardware SRE Team! The AI Hardware SRE team is responsible for overseeing, scaling, and optimizing our next-generation dedicated AI hardware infrastructure. You will be responsible for ensuring best-in-class uptime and reliability of our AI hardware infrastructure offerings. Partner with the best In this role, you'll play a part in pioneering the reliability an elite, high-density hardware and software infrastructure spanning the globe. You'll collaborate with product teams from the earliest stages of development to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems. You'll define key performance indicators and defend them when they are breached. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for: * Developing and scaling robust programmatic tooling and infrastructure-as-code utilities in Python to eliminate operational toil and automate fleet-wide provisioning. * Integrating automated workflows across disconnected corporate ticketing systems to optimize time-to-mitigate metrics for hardware and network break-fix events. * Leveraging advanced AI utilities and LLM-assisted development paradigms where appropriate to accelerate technical execution, script authorship, and system analysis * Working on cutting-edge private cloud and compute technologies to improve the availability, latency, and overall systemic health of high-density hardware environments. * Designing and implementing telemetry pipelines, custom Prometheus/Grafana monitoring dashboards, and AI-based anomaly detection tailored for bare-metal and virtualized environments. * Participating in 24x7x365 on-call rotations, spearheading real-time incident management, and managing high-severity service disruption protocols via automated PagerDuty and Slack workflows. * Partnering directly with third-party infrastructure vendors and coordinating on-site field technicians to facilitate uptime activities. Do what you love To be successful in this role you will: * Have 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent * Possess tooling and coding ability in languages like Python to construct scalable operational tools, API integrations, and automation frameworks. * Show hands-on experience with modern observability stacks and timeseries engines, like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Loki. * Possess a working understanding of advanced networking topologies, high-bandwidth routing/switching infrastructure, BGP, and dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 networks. * Have experience acting as a key designer for new service rollouts, including establishing operational readiness criteria, telemetry baselines, and alerting thresholds. * Demonstrate extensive experience building technical runbooks, leading complex incident response bridges, and driving comprehensive, blameless post-mortems. * Display a proven ability to take absolute ownership of ambiguous technical problems, coordinate cross-functional teams, and drive for production-grade solutions. About us 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. Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits. [https://www.akamai.com/careers/working-at-akamai?utm_source=akamai&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benefits] FlexBase adapts to your job's needs Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work. We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like! [https://app.role-mapper.com/images/twitter.png]https://twitter.com/Akamai?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor [https://app.role-mapper.com/images/facebook.png]https://www.facebook.com/akamaicareers/ [https://app.role-mapper.com/images/linkedin.png]https://www.linkedin.com/company/akamai-technologies/ [https://app.role-mapper.com/images/instagram.png]https://www.instagram.com/akamaicareers/ [https://app.role-mapper.com/images/blog.png]https://www.akamai.com/blog? [https://assets.role-mapper.com/images/youtube_new.png]https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYo5nh8xQFpnnPl17sQRURR9ugKL-KMRO Compensation Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $121,400 - $218,600/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. 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.

Develop security solutions focusing on software deployments, databases, and control plane systems with cross-functional collaboration. | Bachelor's degree with 8+ years or Master's with 5+ years in software engineering, familiarity with Zero Trust, networking protocols, Infrastructure as Code, and compliance regimes. | Would building the platform security capabilities of a large Cloud provider excite you? Would you enjoy the opportunity to solve complex security challenges through innovative software development? Join our Cloud Technology Group's Platform Security Engineering team! The Platform Security team shapes the security strategy for Akamai's Cloud Platforms. We improve the security posture of Akamai's platform by working holistically to resolve known issues and risks and providing tools, services, and support that help Akamai teams build new products and capabilities that efficiently fulfill diverse security and compliance requirements. We focus on enabling secure development while aligning with business and product goals. Become Akamai's next Senior Software Engineer As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop innovative security solutions for our platform components and services. Your focus will span key areas such as software and configuration deployments, databases, and control plane systems. You will play a critical role in engineering secure, scalable solutions across these domains. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for: * Demonstrating engineering execution and technical expertise by delivering high-quality code and end-to-end security implementations, focusing on meeting defined objectives around scalability, availability, reliability, and performance. * Supporting the full product life cycle - ideation, implementation, operation. * Working across stakeholders - Product Management, Architecture, DevOps, and InfoSec to satisfy their needs/requirements in the software development life cycle. * Solving complex security problems across both the platform and products. Do what you love To be successful in this role you will: * Have 8 years of relevant software engineering and design experience and a BS degree or 5 years of relevant experience and MS degree * Be familiar with security concepts such as Zero Trust and secure/confidential computing * Demonstrate familiarity with networking concepts including TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, TLS/SSL * Be familiar with Infrastructure as Code technologies (e.g. Terraform, Salt, etc.) * Have experience with software and hardware vulnerability management, and tools e.g. Tenable, Vulcan Cyber, Trivy, SonarQube, etc. * Have knowledge of compliance regimes such as PCI, ISO, SOC2, and FedRamp About us 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. Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits. [https://www.akamai.com/careers/working-at-akamai?utm_source=akamai&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benefits] FlexBase adapts to your job's needs Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work. We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like![https://app.role-mapper.com/images/twitter.png]https://twitter.com/Akamai?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author [https://app.role-mapper.com/images/facebook.png]https://www.facebook.com/akamaicareers/ [https://app.role-mapper.com/images/linkedin.png]https://www.linkedin.com/company/akamai-technologies/ [https://app.role-mapper.com/images/instagram.png]https://www.instagram.com/akamaicareers/ [https://app.role-mapper.com/images/blog.png]https://www.akamai.com/blog? [https://assets.role-mapper.com/images/youtube_new.png]https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYo5nh8xQFpnnPl17sQRURR9ugKL-KMRO Compensation Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $121,400 - $218,600/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. 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.

Design and implement systems software to improve traffic-steering mapping systems' accuracy, reliability, and performance. | Bachelor's degree with 2+ years experience in C/C++ or object-oriented languages, proficiency in Linux and scripting, and strong algorithm development background. | Are you excited by the prospect of creating algorithms that steer large portions of the Internet's traffic? Would you like the opportunity to create a seamless internet experience for our end users? Join our exciting and prestigious Mapping Engineering team Join Akamai's prestigious Mapping Engineering team, where we build the core traffic-steering systems behind Akamai's Intelligent Platform. Our software measures and models the global Internet, then directs traffic across Akamai's worldwide network of servers. These systems help customers deliver digital experiences with industry-leading performance, reliability, and scale. Partner with the best In this role, you'll develop software that will improve the speed, reliability and security of web experiences all over the world. You will work collaboratively within your team and with other teams at Akamai. As a Software Engineer II, you will be responsible for: * Analyzing, designing, and implementing systems software that brings new functionality and increased accuracy, reliability and performance to our mapping system * Evolving complex algorithms to best respond to unpredictable traffic patterns on the global Internet * Improving the scalability, robustness, and ease of use of our software systems for testing, deployment, monitoring and maintenance * Becoming a subject matter expert for our systems, explaining and improving our software, and assisting with troubleshooting * Measuring, assessing, and tuning the effects of our global control systems Do what you love To be successful in this role you will: * Have 2 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent experience * Demonstrate solid experience working in C/C++ or another object-oriented language * Have experience developing, analyzing or improving algorithms. * Be comfortable solving complex technical problems collaboratively * Be curious, adaptable, and eager to learn new technologies. * Be familiar with the Linux operating system and scripting languages (e.g. Python, shell, perl) About us 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. Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits. [https://www.akamai.com/careers/working-at-akamai?utm_source=akamai&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benefits] FlexBase adapts to your job's needs Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work. We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like! [https://app.role-mapper.com/images/twitter.png]https://twitter.com/Akamai?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor [https://app.role-mapper.com/images/facebook.png]https://www.facebook.com/akamaicareers/ [https://app.role-mapper.com/images/linkedin.png]https://www.linkedin.com/company/akamai-technologies/ [https://app.role-mapper.com/images/instagram.png]https://www.instagram.com/akamaicareers/ [https://app.role-mapper.com/images/blog.png]https://www.akamai.com/blog? [https://assets.role-mapper.com/images/youtube_new.png]https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYo5nh8xQFpnnPl17sQRURR9ugKL-KMRO Compensation Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $95,000 - $171,000/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. 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.