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# Senior Site Reliability Engineer Lead

- **Company:** Akamai View all jobs
- **Location:** Cambridge, MA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $121,400.0 - $218,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Engineering, Linux, Distributed Systems, Performance Tuning, Reliability Engineering, Akamai, Software Engineering, Sysadmin, Information Technology
- **Published:** September 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/job/us3dc59de0a57ba70964fe19d1769ff064/eaa

## About the Role

* Have 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
 * Have experience with architecting hardware, software, and infrastructure at scale
 * Possess expert-level experience in a Development or SysAdmin role, working with large scale distributed systems
 * Have the ability to align with strategic business initiatives and coordinate the work of other engineers
 * Demonstrate excellent communication, mentorship, and interpersonal skills
 * Possess informed opinions on technology and software design to bring to the table

## Description

Do you have a passion for cutting edge technologies and tackling system problems?
Are you a self-starting professional who thrives in a dynamic environment?
Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team!
Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services and compute hardware. You will drive automation, operational excellence, and support our customer facing applications and infrastructure. We do this while maintaining Akamai's mission at the forefront of what we do: make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.
Partner with the best
In this role, you'll focus on developing and implementing automation and efficiency of the Akamai compute infrastructure and services. This requires creative thinking combined with deep domain expertise on Linux, hardware, and performance tuning.
As a Senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:

 * Defining requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence the new designs and standards
 * Providing support, leadership and motivation for project teams
 * Creating and maintaining SLOs and KPIs, collaborating with Engineering, Product, and Support teams
 * Engaging with our support, operations, hardware, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems, including incident management and post-mortem reviews
 * Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues