Senior Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Do you want to shape the future of AI infrastructure?

Ready to define the reliability architecture for AI products, from GPU compute to globally distributed inference, ensuring performance and reliability at scale.

Join the Akamai AI Team

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group offers AI infrastructure globally. The GPU compute platform provides dedicated resources, from single GPUs to full clusters. These resources support training, simulation, inference, and various workloads. Site Reliability Engineering is integrated early to guarantee production-grade reliability and performance.

Partner with the best

As Senior Principal SRE for AI, this role involves setting technical direction for building, operating, and scaling AI services. Responsibilities include writing code, designing systems, and solving complex reliability issues. Additionally, mentoring team members, defining technical standards, and promoting engineering best practices are essential. Success depends on achieving influence with product engineering teams through exceptional technical expertise.

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

• Defining the reliability architecture for Akamai's AI compute and platform services, including SLO frameworks, fault tolerance patterns, and capacity planning models
• Hands-on building of automation and tooling that reduces operational toil and scales the SRE team's impact
• Designing observability strategy by leveraging Akamai's existing platform to build the telemetry, dashboards, alerts, and GPU-specific monitoring needed for AI workloads
• Architecting deployment safety practices including progressive rollouts, canary analysis, rollback automation, and change safety processes
• Influencing product engineering architecture and design decisions, embedding reliability into the development lifecycle at the system level
• Mentoring and elevating other SREs through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on problem-solving, setting the technical bar for the team
  
  

Do What You Love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have extensive experience in SRE, platform engineering, and/or infrastructure engineering, with demonstrated impact at a principal or staff level
• Demonstrate extensive Kubernetes expertise, managing autoscaling, resource scheduling, and container orchestration for handling compute-intensive workloads effectively.
• Develop programming expertise in Python or Go, focusing on creating automation and tooling for production-grade environments.
• Demonstrate expertise in programming with Python and/or Go, coupled with experience creating production-grade automation, tooling, and platform services.
• Influence cross-team technical decisions, mentor engineers, elevate technical standards, and collaborate effectively with product engineering teams.
• Gain experience in AI/ML infrastructure, model deployment, or GPU workloads to enhance technical expertise and practical understanding.
• Design reliability into innovative platforms at the system level while building influence with product engineering teams through technical expertise.
  
  

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

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