9 hours ago
Remote, Poland or Kraków, PolandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development and operation of a globally deployed, multi-tenant platform built on Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies.
- Build automation and tooling to reduce operational toil, improve deployment safety, and accelerate incident response.
- Create and maintain service-level objectives and key performance indicators while collaborating with Engineering, Product, and Support teams.
- Participate in on-call rotations and guide restoration and repair of service-impacting issues.
- Provide technical and architectural leadership for a highly available, resilient, distributed control-plane architecture.
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a similar field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable production services using Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies.
- Working knowledge of Linux internals, containerization, and networking.
- A code-first approach to operating infrastructure, including automation and code-based toil reduction.
- Knowledge of Go and comfort using Python or Bash for scripting.
- Familiarity with Crossplane, Pulumi, Terraform, or Ansible.
- In-depth experience with observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or Loki.
- Ability to analyze complex systems and dependencies with methodical curiosity.
Benefits
- Benefits supporting employees’ health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work.
- Flexible work arrangements through FlexBase, including working from home, in an office, or a combination of both.
Tech Stack
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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.