Sr. Site Reliability Engineer- Remote

Akamai Technologies • Cambridge, MA

300d • $106,600 - $221,400 • Remote

About The Position

Are you a Site Reliability Engineer who loves solving complex problems? Do you relish the opportunity to create solutions and make an impact? Join our innovative Security Technology Group. Our Security Edge team designs and develops software that runs one of the world's largest distributed systems. This network allows us to solve problems at a scale that few others can approach. We take pride in helping our customers protect their web sites and transactions over the Internet.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent experience
• Experience working in networking, cloud, or distributed computing environment
• Experience programming with C++
• Working knowledge with Linux or UNIX operating systems
• Excellent collaboration and team working skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to write design documentation

Responsibilities

• Investigating customer escalations and providing mitigation
• Working on tooling to automate production debugging
• Setting up continuous production profiling, identifying areas of cost reduction, and proposing new designs
• Creating and enhancing features and functionality, from conception and design through to testing and deployment
• Validating the result of cost reduction and providing benchmark results
• Conducting code reviews and helping other engineers to optimize their code
• Working with development and system QA teams to create regression tests that cover changes to our software

Benefits

• Healthcare
• 401K savings plan
• Company holidays
• Vacation (in the form of PTO)
• Sick time
• Family friendly benefits including parental leave
• Employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree