Site Reliability Engineer II

Akamai Technologies is a leader in cloud computing, seeking a Site Reliability Engineer II to join their Inference Cloud Team. The role involves building and maintaining monitoring systems, writing automation to improve reliability, and collaborating with engineering teams to troubleshoot issues.

Responsibilities:

• Building and maintaining dashboards, alerts, and monitoring for inference workloads using Akamai's existing observability platform
• Writing automation and tooling in Python or Go to reduce operational toil and improve system reliability
• Building and improving runbooks for inference-specific operational procedures, integrating into Akamai's existing incident management processes
• Contributing to SLO tracking and reporting, identifying trends and areas for improvement
• Supporting CI/CD pipeline maintenance, deployment safety checks, and rollback procedures
• Collaborating with product engineering teams to troubleshoot complex problems across the stack
• Participating in on-call rotations, responding to production incidents, and conducting blameless post-mortems

Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering and a Bachelor's Degree or its equivalent experience
• Demonstrate coding ability in at least one programming language (Python or Go) with experience writing automation
• Experience with Linux systems administration and the ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and containerization concepts
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or similar
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, SaltStack, or equivalent)
• Willingness to learn and grow, with genuine curiosity about AI infrastructure and distributed systems