Are you passionate about enabling next-generation server hardware and Linux platforms while building reliable, high-performance infrastructure for a global cloud platform?
Are you excited about solving complex server reliability challenges and delivering hardware, firmware, and Linux solutions for Akamai's integral cloud infrastructure?
Join our highly skilled Site Reliability Engineering team
Our HIVE Server Enablement & Qualification (SEQ) team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure supporting Akamai's Compute products and services. HIVE is responsible for supplying our fleet with hardware, the host and guest Linux platforms. We make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.
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As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer, you will be at the forefront of Akamai Cloud hypervisor host technologies. SEQ works to enable new hardware via our provisioning service, provides seamless firmware upgrade models, and works with other HIVE teams. Together,



we are providing cohesive and performant solutions to our internal infrastructure customers and operators. We ensure reliable server behavior cross all our datacenters.
As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Shaping compute-platform strategy and qualification: define direction and criteria for x64, ARM, accelerator, and inference hardware across firmware, OS, runtime, reliability.
- Leading provisioning and CI/CD improvements: designing reproducible, safe, and scalable bare-metal provisioning, imaging configuration, and infrastructure delivery pipelines.
- Driving reliability and observability: addressing systemic failures, enhance telemetry and diagnostics, and establishing safe rollout and recovery safeguards for production.
- Providing incident expertise: investigate complex HW/SW incidents, identify root causes, guide decision-making, and convert findings into engineering fixes.
- Acting as a senior technical force multiplier: review

📌 Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Pol)
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