Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Do you enjoy inferring from big data and passionate about cutting edge technology?

Do solving some of the Internet's most difficult content delivery challenges interest you?

Join our Data Science SRE team

Our team uses large datasets to analyze and measure the performance and reliability of our platform. We are networking data scientists, we combine our knowledge of data analysis, networking and distributed systems. We define key performance indicators, determine how different factors impact them. In addition, our team develops new forecast and early warning systems.

Partner with the best

You'll apply statistical data analysis, together with cutting edge machine learning and an understanding of networking protocols. Diagnosing and solving some of the Internet's most difficult content delivery challenges. You'll work with cross-functional teams to understand and measure the performance and reliability of our platform. Note: this is not a QA, DevOps or Operations role

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Applying analytical skills and statistical insights to identify performance bottlenecks and reliability challenges and propose solutions
• Developing new tools to diagnose problems faster and in a more independent manner
• Defining, implementing and mining data feeds drawn from Akamai internal sources in order to produce insights
• Influencing company decision-making at the highest levels and identifying areas for new technology investments
• Partnering with Engineering, Operations and Product teams to help guide adoption of new features and processes
• Building software tools and systems to automate analytical tasks and workflows to increase efficiency and reliability

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have academic or industrial experience and PhD or master's degree in computer science or another quantitative field
• Have an analytical background with experience in statistical data analysis
• Demonstrate experience with coding in one or more of the following languages (python, C/C++)
• Possess experience with Internet protocols (DNS/HTTP/TLS/TCP)
• Have an understanding of Machine Learning algorithms
• Have excellent communication and organizational skills and be able to articulate technical information in an easy-to-understand manner

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

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