# Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Are you passionate about cutting edge technology? Are you looking for the freedom to innovate and help shape the next generation of the network? Join our Network Infrastructure SRE team! 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 In this role, you will collaborate across software development, operations teams and Akamai Compute stakeholders. You'll be instrumental in developing organizational standards and tooling to ensure the growth and stability of our global platform. As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Network, you will be responsible for: Architecting, building and supporting solutions that foster efficient and streamlined processes. Serving as a subject matter expert and mentor to team members, driving code quality standards and providing thought leadership on architectural decisions. Collaborating with the cross-functional teams on standards and processes for deploymen

- **Id**: 971690
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/akamai-principal-site-reliability-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cambridge, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-16T17:45:05Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-16
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T14:05:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 58
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5072
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Equity, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), CDN & Edge Delivery, Web Security & DDoS Protection

## Company

- **Id**: 15228
- **Name**: Akamai
- **Domain**: akamai.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/akamai>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 91
- **Open postings**: 39
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.538
- **Repost share**: 0.026
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 5
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 169300
- **Max**: 304700
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 304700

## Technologies

- **Akamai** — Optional: no
- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **ArgoCD** — Optional: no
- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **BGP** — Optional: no
- **Chef** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Configuration Management** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Puppet** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **SaltStack** — Optional: no
- **Slack** — Optional: no
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 58

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-16T18:20:22Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker, Senior or Specialist Worker); Route: Skilled Worker; Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 6
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.226
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 56
- **Expected fill days**: 5
- **Reasons**: conf:1, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 304700
- **Is top pay**: yes

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