Python Developer
Akamai Technologies · Poland ·
- Work mode
- Remote
- Category
- Software engineering
Do you have a passion for network automation?
Do you want to help scale a global platform?
Join the Mapping SRE team
Our team supports Akamai's global backbone and networking technologies by solving operational challenges through code. This position focuses on reducing toil through code, improving our ability to build and scale. As an SRE, you will be a crucial part of our ability to deliver global infrastructure connectivity for the next generation of Akamai's services.
Partner with the best
Our SRE team sits directly next to Architecture, Engineering and Ops. We are tasked with identifying the biggest areas for improvement and are responsible for designing and building solutions. With a focus on software, you will be directly responsible for continuously improving Akamai's ability to monitor and operate our backbone.
As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Designing and building systems that support automated operational workflows and provide deep insights into our global network data
- Identifying and eliminate bottlenecks in operational workflows caused by process inefficiencies, manual toil, and technical debt
- Generating telemetry data and deep observability for network infrastructure
- Architecting our code to be self-sustainable, robust and easily maintainable, focusing on CI/CD, test-driven development, and iterative design
- Supporting and deploying cloud-native, third party software utilizing an infrastructure as code paradigm
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Contribute to the design and implementation of full stack systems, utilizing appropriate tools and frameworks for a given task
- Identify operational inefficiencies and develop software solutions to help relieve process bottlenecks.
- Maintain and enhance network telemetry and automation software stacks, including source of truth systems, metric agents, time-series databases, dashboarding, and alerting.
- Apply software and SDLC best practices consistently, supporting greater development efficiency within a collaborative team.
- Develop a strong understanding of global, complex, interconnected systems and proactively contribute to their reliability.
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.
FlexBase adapts to your job's needs
Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.