Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Columbus, OH
$121,400–$218,600from the description
Jun 29, 2026
Columbus, OH
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level infrastructure role focused on designing, building, and operating deployment systems for a large-scale cloud platform. Day-to-day work centers on infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipeline development, and observability tooling, alongside incident response and mentoring. Suited to engineers with deep experience in distributed systems, tools like Terraform or SaltStack, and languages such as Python or Go.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 15,200 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 9,100–27,400
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The role is titled 'Senior Site Reliability Engineer' and centers on writing and shipping infrastructure automation code (IaC, CI/CD pipelines, Python/Go/Bash tooling), which aligns more closely with Software Developers (15-1252) than with Systems Administrators (15-1244). The alt code 15-1244 is noted because the role also includes on-call operations and incident response duties.
The JD states 'Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent' — the 'or equivalent' language means no formal degree is hard-gated; degree requirement is set to None accordingly.
Location is not specified in the posting; Akamai's FlexBase program and the US salary range suggest a US-based remote-eligible role, but no specific metro is identified.
For the IaC tooling requirement, Terraform is listed as the primary name with SaltStack, Ansible, Chef, and Puppet as named alternatives — the JD presents all five as interchangeable options satisfying the same requirement.
For the CI/CD pipeline tooling, Jenkins is listed as primary with GitHub Actions and GitLab CI as named alternatives.
For scripting/development languages, Python is listed as primary with Go and Bash as named alternatives — the JD presents all three as interchangeable options.
Observability (monitoring, logging, alerting, telemetry) and incident response/on-call appear in the responsibilities section rather than the explicit requirements block, so they are marked as preferred rather than hard gates.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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