Principal Site Reliability Engineer

🕒 September 22

🇵🇱 Poland – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Akamai Technologies

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5001 - 10000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2001-07

Cloud Computing • Cybersecurity • Content Delivery

Akamai Technologies is a leading cloud services provider that specializes in delivering security, cloud computing, and content delivery solutions. It offers a range of services such as API security, DDoS protection, and performance optimization for web applications, ensuring secure and reliable user experiences. With a robust global infrastructure, Akamai empowers businesses to streamline their digital presence while safeguarding against various cyber threats and enhancing application performance.

📋 Description

• Shape compute-platform strategy and qualification criteria for x64, ARM, accelerator, and inference hardware across firmware, OS, runtime, and reliability • Lead provisioning and CI/CD improvements, including reproducible, safe, and scalable bare-metal provisioning, imaging, configuration, and infrastructure delivery pipelines • Drive reliability and observability by addressing systemic failures, enhancing telemetry and diagnostics, and establishing safe production rollout and recovery safeguards • Investigate complex hardware/software incidents, identify root causes, guide decision-making, and convert findings into engineering fixes • Review designs, mentor engineers, establish standards, and resolve multi-domain issues across teams and vendors • Enable new hardware through provisioning services and provide seamless firmware upgrade models • Ensure reliable server behavior across Akamai datacenters

🎯 Requirements

• Expertise in Linux systems and server platforms, including boot processes, storage, networking, hardware diagnostics, firmware, BIOS/UEFI, BMCs, and server lifecycles • Experience designing and operating bare-metal provisioning, configuration management, and scalable infrastructure automation • Fluency in Python and Bash • Experience building automation, APIs, deployment pipelines, and debugging multi-layer failures • Ability to identify whether hardware-test failures originate from firmware, BIOS/UEFI configuration, device firmware, kernel/driver behavior, or the physical test environment • Expertise in observability, metrics, capacity analysis, incident root-cause investigation, and production readiness • Practical knowledge of x86 and ARM platforms, accelerators, and inference infrastructure, including drivers, runtimes, and compatibility • Hands-on experience with Linux virtualization technologies, including KVM, QEMU, and libvirt • Understanding of nested virtualization, CPU virtualization extensions, VM networking and storage, and Linux-level troubleshooting of virtualized environments

🏖️ Benefits

• Health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work benefits • FlexBase workplace flexibility: work at home, in an office, or a combination of both

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