Site Reliability Engineer II at Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Columbus, OH
$95,000–$171,000from the description
Jun 29, 2026
Columbus, OH
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A mid-level SRE role focused on the reliability and operability of an AI inference platform. Day-to-day work centers on building observability tooling (dashboards, alerts, runbooks), writing automation in Python or Go to reduce manual effort, supporting CI/CD pipelines, and participating in on-call incident response. Suits engineers with a Linux and Kubernetes background who want to deepen their experience with GPU infrastructure and distributed AI workloads.
Mid level · 2+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 6 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 30,600 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 18,400–55,000
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 (9)
The role is titled 'Site Reliability Engineer II', where 'II' maps to Mid-level, and the 2+ years experience requirement is consistent with that band.
SOC classification is a judgment call: the JD emphasizes writing automation and tooling in Python/Go, building dashboards, and contributing to CI/CD — work that is primarily software development (15-1252). However, the on-call, incident response, and infrastructure operations duties create a plausible case for 15-1244; 15-1244 is listed as the runner-up.
The role is posted as fully remote (#LI-Remote) under Akamai's FlexBase program. No specific US metro is identified.
The compensation range ($95,000–$171,000/year) is explicitly stated as US-only; compensation for candidates outside the US will vary.
Python and Go are presented as interchangeable options ('Python or Go') for the coding requirement; Python is listed as the primary with Go as the alternative.
Prometheus and Grafana are presented as examples of monitoring/observability tools ('such as Prometheus, Grafana, or similar'); both are named explicitly so Prometheus is primary with Grafana as the alternative.
Terraform and SaltStack are presented as examples of infrastructure-as-code tools ('Terraform, SaltStack, or equivalent'); Terraform is primary with SaltStack as the alternative.
A Bachelor's degree is listed but explicitly paired with 'or its equivalent experience', so no hard degree requirement is set.
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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