Senior II Site Reliability Engineer
Akamai Technologies, Inc. · Nashville, TN
$146,400–$263,600from the description
Jul 19, 2026
Nashville, TN
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior SRE role focused on a serverless AI inference platform, responsible for owning observability strategy, building production automation and tooling, and leading incident management. The position also involves defining deployment safety practices, partnering with product engineering on architecture decisions, and mentoring other SREs. Suits engineers with deep distributed systems experience, strong Kubernetes expertise, and familiarity with AI/ML or GPU infrastructure.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 17,900 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 7,500–26,800
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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 II Site Reliability Engineer' — the 'II' suffix signals an above-standard Senior level within Akamai's internal ladder, but the requirements (8+ years, cross-team influence, mentoring) are consistent with a strong Senior IC; the role is classified as Senior rather than Staff because the JD describes leading workstreams and mentoring rather than setting direction across multiple teams organizationally.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role is primarily about building production-grade automation, tooling, and observability platforms (software development work), which points to 15-1252; however, the SRE framing with on-call, incident management, and infrastructure operations also has affinity with 15-1244. The balance of 'building tooling and automation' over 'operating existing systems' tips the classification to 15-1252.
No specific work location is stated; the FlexBase program description ('at home, in an office, or a combination of both') indicates the role can be fully remote. The compensation range is explicitly for US-based candidates.
Infrastructure-as-code is listed as a required skill via the requirements section ('familiarity in CI/CD pipelines, deployment safety, and infrastructure-as-code'), though 'familiarity' is softer language — it is retained as required because it appears in the hard-requirements block.
AI/ML infrastructure, model serving, and GPU workloads are listed as 'experience with or exposure to' in the requirements section — the 'or exposure to' phrasing signals these are not hard gates, so they are marked preferred.
Canary analysis, progressive rollouts, and rollback automation are described as responsibilities rather than named tools, so they are not emitted as discrete skills per the schema rules.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): incident management.
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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