Job DescriptionWould 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.
Partner with the bestIn 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 loveTo 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
CompensationAkamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $146,400 - $263,600/year; a candidate's salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.
