Akamai Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Storage 

United States, Oregon 

263873981

Partner with the best

In this role, you'll collaborate with operations and development teams to build and manage our scalable storage platforms, including Block & Object Storage. You'll create tooling to automate the lifecycle of petabyte-scale storage systems. You'll work with open-source technologies, including Ceph, to ensure Akamai's storage systems are reliable, available, and performant.

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

• Architecting new highly available storage systems and infrastructure, supporting a variety of workloads from compute customers
• Working with highly knowledgeable engineers to develop, test, and deploy new features supporting large enterprise workloads
• Engaging and networking with Ceph developers, representing Akamai in the open-source community
• Identifying bottlenecks within the entire tech stack, improving performance and reliability wherever possible in the OSI model
• Tuning Ceph, the Linux kernel, and server hardware, maximizing performance and reliability for our customers
• Leading hardware R&D efforts to keep our storage systems on the bleeding edge, validating next-generation hardware builds

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent
• Have professional experience in a Site Reliability, Development, or Systems Engineering role, with large scale distributed systems
• Have mastery with benchmarking tools and concepts like FIO, IOPS, throughput, 99th percentile latency, and tail latency
• Have experience deploying load balancing, rate limiting, throttling and traffic shaping techniques
• Have experience with automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, or Salt Stack
• Have extensive experience with architecting, deploying, and running mission-critical Linux servers at scale emphasizing performance and reliability

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.