4 days ago
Base Salary
$146k - $264k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, develop, test, and distribute software, services, and tools that enable hardware platforms.
- Design and implement observability infrastructure to identify and resolve problems before customer impact.
- Develop subject-matter expertise in team components and mentor teammates.
- Identify and implement automation best practices for existing products and processes.
- Collaborate with support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems.
- Participate in on-call rotations and guide restoration and repair of service-impacting issues.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience and a bachelor’s diploma in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Advanced experience with Linux internals, system administration, underlying hardware, and enabling advanced hardware features in Linux.
- Advanced experience with the Linux kernel, operating systems, KVM/QEMU, and nested virtualization.
- Expert experience designing, developing, and deploying software and infrastructure at scale.
- Advanced engineering experience with large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience with SaltStack, Ansible, Kubernetes, Chef, or Puppet for infrastructure management at scale.
- Experience with ARM architectures such as NVIDIA Grace.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements through Akamai’s FlexBase program, including working from home, in an office, or a combination of both.
- Healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, PTO vacation, sick time, parental leave, and an employee assistance program focused on mental and financial wellness.
- The compensation package may include annual bonus or incentive opportunities, equity awards, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan; eligibility requirements apply.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
About Akamai
Akamai builds content delivery, cloud security, and edge compute services for enterprises that run consumer and business web, API, and video workloads. The public company (NASDAQ: AKAM), founded in 1998 and headquartered in Cambridge, MA, operates a global CDN and security platform and sells via subscriptions and usage-based services. It expanded into cloud infrastructure by acquiring Linode in 2022, offering IaaS and managed Kubernetes.