Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Linux Performance

Akamai Technologies

Senior Site Reliability Engineer developing and managing Akamai's cloud products and infrastructure. Focus on Linux performance and collaboration with engineering teams.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeRemote • 🇵🇱 PolandSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleChefDistributed SystemsKubernetesLinuxPuppetSaltStack

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Developing, testing, and distributing changes to automation, software, services, and tools the VHP team is responsible for.
Designing and implementing enhancements to VHP observability infrastructure in order to identify and correct problems before they impact our customers.
Comfortable working in new tooling, code and environments and automating what’s possible.
Create supporting tooling using Ansible or Profiling to aide in performance investigations.
Developing subject matter expertise in various components across our Compute environment.
Collaborating with our support, operations and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems
Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues

Requirements

What you’ll need

Possess expert level experience in Linux internals, system administration, and a deep understanding of underlying hardware
Possess advanced level experience with the Linux kernel, OS, and optimization of their configurations for KVM/QEMU virtualization
Possess advanced level experience with designing, developing, and deploying software and infrastructure at scale
Advanced level experience in a Development or SRE role, preferably working with large scale distributed systems.
Experience with tools like SaltStack, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Kubernetes for managing infrastructure at scale
Have relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

Linux internalssystem administrationLinux kernelKVMQEMUsoftware developmentinfrastructure deploymentdistributed systemsperformance optimizationautomation

Soft Skills

collaborationtroubleshootingproblem-solvingcommunication

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer EngineeringBachelor's degree in Computer Science