Site Reliability Engineer
Akamai Technologies, Inc. · Columbus, OH
$75,700–$136,300from the description
Jun 29, 2026
Columbus, OH
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Site Reliability Engineering role focused on infrastructure deployment for a large-scale cloud platform, with particular emphasis on Infrastructure as Code (primarily Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, and configuration management. Day-to-day work spans building and operating critical services, designing observability solutions, driving automation to reduce operational overhead, and participating in on-call incident response. Best suited to engineers with hands-on experience in distributed systems and Linux-based infrastructure at scale.
Mid level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 22,300 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 13,400–40,100
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 (7)
The role is titled 'Site Reliability Engineer' with no level modifier, so advertised seniority is Unspecified. The requirements describe solid but not exceptional scope (distributed systems experience, IaC ownership, on-call rotation, mentoring), which best fits a Mid-level band; there is no stated minimum years of experience.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the JD emphasizes designing, developing, and deploying software/infrastructure (15-1252 Software Developers), but the SRE framing with heavy operational and on-call duties introduces some 15-1244 signal.
Terraform is called out explicitly and in detail (module development, state management, workspace design, policy enforcement, enterprise-scale IaC) under the requirements section, making it a clear hard gate. The broader IaC tools list ('SaltStack, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or similar') is also in the requirements section; Terraform is listed separately as the primary named tool, with the others captured as alternatives on the IaC skill.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree… or equivalent,' so the degree requirement is set to None per policy.
Location is not specified in the posting; Akamai's FlexBase program explicitly supports remote/hybrid work, so remote is set to true. Compensation is quoted for US-based candidates only.
Observability and monitoring are listed as explicit responsibilities under the requirements block ('designing and implementing observability solutions, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and telemetry') and are treated as 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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