Sr Site Reliability Engineer- jobs at Akamai

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As a Principal Solutions Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Owning the technical sales lifecycle, including discovery, solution design, and delivery of compelling product demonstrations.
• Translating complex technical concepts into practical/impactful use cases for diverse audiences from technical engineers to C-level executives.
• Serving as the go-to expert on API security for customers, internal teams, and partners.
• Educating sales teams and other stakeholders on API security trends, threats, and best practices.
• Acting as the technical point of contact for customers during their pre-sales journey, ensuring success and satisfaction.
• Gathering customer requirements and work closely with product and engineering teams to align solutions to customer needs.
• Presenting Akamai's API security vision and best practices at industry conferences, webinars, and customer workshops.
• Partnering with sales, product management, and engineering teams to drive alignment and continuously improve the customer experience.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 12yrs of relevant experience and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, or it's equivalent.
• Have excellent knowledge of APIs, API gateways, web application firewalls (WAF), and API security practices.
• Have proven experience in a technical pre-sales, solution architecture, or related role in cybersecurity or API-related fields.
• Display proficiency in internet technologies, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, and RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and more.
• Possess hands-on experience with scripting languages such as Python, JavaScript, or Bash.
• Display familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and cloud-native architectures.
• Have experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications.
• Possess exceptional presentation skills and ability to explain complex concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

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.

If no date is displayed, applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis until the job is filled.

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is hiring for the following role in Cambridge, MA (multiple openings): Site Reliability Engineer. Senior. Perform site reliability software 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 fault-tolerant 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.[AG0079]

Required Qualification:

Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, Electronical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Networking, or Telecommunications Engineering, plus six (6) months of experience in the job offered or closely related engineering role. Must have: 6 months of experience with the following: Azure cloud development; Bash; Python; Perl; Dynatrace; and Confluent Kafka.

Drive innovation in Threat Intelligence

As a Software Engineer Senior, you will be responsible for:

• Building and tuning real-time anomaly detection systems using behavioral models, heuristics, and ML
• Designing and maintaining scalable pipelines to process and analyze high-volume network telemetry
• Developing high-performance ClickHouse queries and data models to support threat detection and response workflows
• Contributing services that serve as the backbone of our detection systems
• Collaborating with Security Analysts and Incident Response teams to operationalize threat intelligence
• Experimenting with new models and approaches, performing validation and tuning on live data

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To be successful in this role you will:

• 5+ years of relevant experience and a bachelor's degree in a related field
• Be proficient in Python and Golang for backend engineering, with experience writing scalable and reliable microservices
• Have hands-on experience with ClickHouse or other columnar data stores in real-time analytics use cases
• Demonstrate knowledge of anomaly detection, time-series modeling, and applying machine learning to security problems
• Have experience building containerized microservices and managing them with Kubernetes in production/on-prem environments
• Be familiar with network protocols, common attack patterns, and threat hunting practices
• Possess a deep understanding of distributed systems, observability, and performance tuning

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.

If no date is displayed, applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis until the job is filled.

Required Qualification:

Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, or Telecommunications Engineering, plus two (2) years of experience in job offered or closely related engineering roles. Must have: Two (2) years of experience with the following: Java; secure protocols such as TLS or IKE; OpenSSL; internet protocols such as TCP/IP or HTTP; multi-threaded server
applications; and scripting languages such as Python and Perl.

Alternately, employer will accept Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, or Telecommunications Engineering, plus five (5) years of experience in job offered or closely related engineering roles. Must have: Two (2) years of experience with the following: Java; secure protocols such as TLS or IKE; OpenSSL; internet protocols such as TCP/IP or HTTP; multi-threaded server applications; and scripting languages such as Python and Perl.

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As a Software Engineer Senior, you will be responsible for:

• Developing new features and tuning Linux kernel to improve performance, reliability, and security of Akamai Connected Cloud platform.
• Porting existing Akamai modifications to newer versions of Linux kernel.
• Debugging and fixing issues found in a variety of complex test and production environments.
• Enhancing existing build and test automation to facilitate Continuous testing.
• Working with the open source community and upstream your work
• Staying current with upstream Linux kernel and OS changes and emerging industry trends

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
• Have proficiency in software development in C with a focus on Linux kernel development and be proficient in scripting (Perl/Python/Shell).
• Possess good understanding of Linux kernel internals ( KVM, TCP/IP stack, memory management, filesystems, block IO).
• Have knowledge of concurrent programming, data structures, algorithms, complexity analysis, and network protocols (TCP/UDP/IP, Ethernet, QUIC, HTTP/TLS).
• Have experience with Linux kernel debugging.
• Be a motivated self-starter who enjoys collaborating with others but capable of working independently.

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.

If no date is displayed, applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis until the job is filled.

As a Senior Major Account Executive for Compute, you will be responsible for the go-to-market strategy of our Linode Cloud computing business in the region. Working with Field Sales, Technical Pre-Sales, Product and Marketing leaders, you will execute market development initiatives to drive pipeline & lead sales programs to close deals that deliver quality outcomes for customers.

As a Senior Major Account Executive for Compute, you will be responsible for:

• Championing Akamai's Cloud Computing vision and value proposition with Customers, Partners and internal Akamai stakeholders
• Developing a strategic sales plan that encompasses market development, partnerships, and product development
• Leading customer engagements that differentiate Akamai's services at all levels within enterprise customers
• Collaborating with Akamai Sales and Pre-Sales leaders to develop and execute opportunity plans for large enterprise clients
• Developing deep understanding of the Cloud Computing, product development & go-to-market initiatives to lead in Cloud Computing

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To be successful in this role you will:

• Have minimum 8 years sales experience in Cloud Services Sales (infrastructure or Software) in the B2B Enterprise market
• Have an understanding of existing and developing cloud technologies
• Have the ability to collaborate with Partners and Customers to create sales opportunities
• Be able to execute a sales methodology that challenges conventional thinking and creates a differentiated sales experience
• Have Bachelor's Degree or its equivalent
• Demonstrate high ethics, integrity, and personal willpower

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.

People who do best are the ones who seek challenges, possess a passion for learning, and have demonstrated ability to pose and solve truly difficult problems. The job requires a combination of system design, programming and debugging skills, an obsession with code quality, and independence. You must have a passion to get things done quickly and get them done right.

As a Software Engineer Principal, you will be responsible for:

• Analyzing system performance, identify problems, design, develop, and implement solutions
• Extending metrics collection and create visualizations to better quantify systems performance
• Building tooling to help identify system performance problems faster
• Training other Akamai engineers to identify performance issues
• Working with teams across the company to implement your solutions

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 5-8 years of relevant software engineering experience
• Have advanced programming experience in C, as well experience in Python, Bash, or Perl
• Possess a comprehensive understanding of Linux operating system internals and kernel interactions
• Have strong experience with complex data structures, algorithms, and optimization techniques
• Have thorough understanding of network protocols including IP, IPv6, TCP, UDP
• Have a proficiency with Git version control system

People who will thrive in this role will have:

• Have an experience with multiple visualization technologies (Qemu, KVM,.)
• Have an expertise with performance analysis and profiling tools like Linux perf, bcc tools, flamegraphs
• Have deep understanding of computer system architectures and hardware/software interfaces
• Have an experience leading small technical projects or mentoring junior engineers
• Have an experience optimizing software for specific hardware architectures