Senior II Site Reliability Engineer

Do you want to shape reliability practices for a new AI inference platform?

Are you a senior technical leader who drives solutions across teams?

Join the Akamai Inference Cloud Team

The Akamai Inference Cloud team is part of Akamai's Cloud Technology Group. We design, implement, deploy and operate AI platforms that enable customers to run inference models and developers to create AI applications.

Partner with the best

In this role, you'll lead reliability workstreams for Akamai's serverless inference platform, desig SRE tooling and automation, and drive technical decisions. Opportunities exist to mentor other SREs, influence architecture decisions with product engineering teams, and shape SRE practices for AI inference workloads and GPU infrastructure at scale.

As a Senior II SRE, you will be responsible for:

• Taking responsibility for observability strategy, designing telemetry, dashboards, alerts, defining SLO/SLI frameworks, and implementing improvements when targets are missed.
• Building production-grade automation and tooling that reduces operational toil, improves incident response, and sets patterns that other SREs adopt
• Owning incident management integration for inference workloads, designing frameworks, leading incident response during on-call rotations, and driving systemic improvements from post-mortems
• Defining and implementing deployment safety practices including progressive rollouts, canary analysis, and rollback automation, establishing standards for the team
• Partnering with product engineering teams to influence architecture decisions, ensure operational readiness, and represent the SRE perspective in design reviews
• Mentoring Senior and mid-level SREs through code reviews, design discussions, and hands-on problem-solving

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have extensive experience in SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering, working with large-scale distributed systems
• Track record of defining SLO/SLI frameworks, building observability platforms, and running incident management processes at scale
• Demonstrate expertise in Kubernetes and containerization, including autoscaling, resource scheduling, and orchestration for compute-intensive workloads at scale.
• Build automation and tooling using Python or Go, while leveraging CI/CD pipelines, deployment safety practices, and infrastructure-as-code expertise.
• Lead technical initiatives across teams, guide engineers through mentorship, and resolve complex reliability challenges independently with expertise and precision.
• Gain experience in AI/ML infrastructure, model deployment, or handling GPU workloads effectively within relevant environments.
• Demonstrate ownership of intricate reliability issues, deliver solutions collaboratively, and enhance the technical expertise of surrounding SRE team members.

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.
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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.

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