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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior II Site Reliability Engineer - **Company:** Akamai Technologies - **Location:** Austin, TX, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $146,400.0 - $263,600.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Code Review, Complex Networks, Computer Networks, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Github, Python (Programming Language), Network Architecture, Octopus Deploy, Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Akamai, Software Engineering, Scripting, System Availability, Delivery Pipeline, Software Application Programming, Reliability of Systems, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Codebase, Puppet, Jenkins - **Published:** July 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/ED4DAB099B134AC7B06758FEA9A7BB83/job/ ## About the Role * 8+ years of experience and a Bachelor's diploma in Computer Science or its equivalent * Have experience in a Site or Network Reliability Engineering, Network Engineering, Software Engineering, or DevOps role working with large-scale distributed systems * Have advanced proficiency with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Salt Stack, Chef, Puppet, or similar * Have experience with Linux networking at the userspace level and open source networking software such as FRR, Bird, or goBGP * Have experience developing applications, contributing to codebases, conducting code review, and writing scripts using languages such as Python, Bash, or Go * Have experience with continuous integration / continuous deployment tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions, ArgoCD, or similar ## Description Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We specialize in building and maintaining fast, efficient, scalable, and reliable routing software and infrastructure that is responsible for all network delivery to Akamai Connected Cloud customers. Partner with the best As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer II, you will collaborate across software development, operations teams and network infrastructure teams. You'll be instrumental in developing organizational standards and tooling to ensure the growth and stability of our global platform. You will be responsible for: As a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for: * Partnering across teams to ensure the reliability, scalability and usability of our network infrastructure, products, and services. * Defining requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence new designs and standards. * Developing automation pipelines to support development, testing, and deployment workflows. * Defining SLOs for network infrastructure within the Akamai Connected Cloud to ensure high availability and performance. * Working with Dev and Quality Assurance teams to create more robust solutions, code improvement and stability. * Collaborating with our support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex network-related problems including participation in on-call rotations. * Serving as a mentor to team members, driving code quality standards and providing thought leadership on architectural decisions. ## Related Videos - [What the Heck is Edge Computing Anyway?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/593-what-the-heck-is-edge-computing-anyway) - [SRE Methods In an Agency Environment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/348-sre-methods-in-an-agency-environment) - [Innovating Developer Tools with AI: Insights from GitHub Next](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1268-innovating-developer-tools-with-ai-insights-from-github-next) - [Automate everything via NodeJS and Puppeteer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/322-automate-everything-via-nodejs-and-puppeteer) - [Bringing AI Model Testing and Prompt Management to Your Codebase with GitHub Models](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1536-bringing-ai-model-testing-and-prompt-management-to-your-codebase-with-github-models) - [The Memory Leak That Ate Our Cluster: A Postmortem](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2057-the-memory-leak-that-ate-our-cluster-a-postmortem) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [The Best Job Search Websites of 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/368-the-best-job-search-websites-of-2025) - [Find a Developer Job: 12 Best Job Sites For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/165-find-a-developer-job-12-best-job-sites-for-developers)