Akamai Technologies
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Linux Performance)- Remote
Remote Site Reliability Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJun 15, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
Poland
Role overview
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Linux Performance)- Remote
Requirements and responsibilities
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- 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
To be successful in this role you will:
- 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 great communication and collaborative skills.
- Have relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.
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