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 global 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: reviewing designs, mentoring engineers, establishing standards, and resolving multi-domain issues across teams and vendors.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have a Linux and server-platform expertise: knowledge of Linux systems, boot processes, storage, networking, hardware diagnostics, firmware, BIOS/UEFI, BMCs, server lifecycles.
- Have a provisioning & automation background: experience designing and operating bare-metal provisioning, configuration management, and scalable infrastructure automation.
- Demonstrate software & CI/CD engineering skills:
fluency in Python and BASH, with experience building automation, APIs, deployment pipelines, and debugging multi-layer failures. - Possess skills identifying whether hardware-test failures originate from firmware, BIOS/UEFI configuration, device firmware, kernel/driver behavior, or the physical test environment
- Possess a Reliability & operations experience:
expertise in observability, metrics, capacity analysis, incident root-cause investigation, and production readiness. - Display practical knowledge of x86 and ARM platforms, accelerators, and inference infrastructure, including drivers, runtimes, and compatibility,
- Have hands-on experience with Linux virtualization technologies, including KVM, QEMU and libvirt.
- Have understanding of nested virtualization, CPU virtualization extensions, VM networking and storage, and Linux-level troubleshooting of virtualized environments.
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