Senior Site Reliability Engineer Job Cambridge area,Massachusetts USA,IT/Tech

Job Description

Would you enjoy improving stability and safety of one of the largest global networks?

Would you enjoy hands‑on network operations work on a global scale to improve our operational efficiency?

Join Our Metadata Team! The Metadata Team is a part of the Akamai's Platform Communications group. A cross‑functional engineering team that develops the distributed systems and services that underpin Akamai's global network. Our system supports fast and reliable configuration of Akamai's global network. Also, we support the control services for global content management.

Job Description

Would you enjoy improving stability and safety of one of the largest global networks?

Would you enjoy hands‑on network operations work on a global scale to improve our operational efficiency?

Partner with the best

In this role, you'll leverage your big data, distributed systems, network diagnostics and analytical skills to characterize performance, reliability and capacity of the system. You'll help create and maintain the test analysis & simulation tools, supporting performance analysis of the team's various metadata systems.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:

Tuning systems to optimize performance and to operate more reliably
Providing ongoing technical assistance in areas including model database management, configuration management, and simulation runs
Managing the rollout and activation of new features and platform changes
Developing monitoring tools and automate processes to help scale our systems better
Troubleshooting complex application issues, service incidents, performance and availability issues
Providing expertise developing code that provides predictive results from analytical trending and modeling

Do What You Love

To be successful in this role you will:

Have 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
Have extensive experience with Linux/Unix operating systems and scripting, ideally with Python
Have a significant background in performance analytics and performance optimization
Be able to monitor systems and applications for performance
Have experience with database queries or big data technologies (Postgres/SQL)
Have good attention to detail and excellent problem solving/troubleshooting skill

About Us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.

Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our Focus Is Simple

Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.

Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.

Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.

AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai

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