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Associate Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

Akamai

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Cambridge, MA · On-site

$121K - $218K/yr

Join our critical AI Hardware SRE Team! The AI Hardware SRE team is responsible for overseeing, scaling, and optimizing our next-generation dedicated AI hardware infrastructure. You will be ...

SS&C

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

Waltham, MA · Hybrid

$61.50 - $81.75/hr

Site Reliability Engineer Location(s) : Waltham, MA | Hybrid About the Role Sr Site Reliability Engineer- Guardian of the products to ensuring systems are reliable, scalable, and efficient enough to ...

Veracode

Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Burlington, MA · On-site

$62 - $82.50/hr

As a member of our SRE team, you will be part of a team migrating existing applications into AWS while seeking opportunities for efficiencies in deployment, monitoring, and cost. In addition to this ...

Akamai

Site Reliability Engineer II

Cambridge, MA · On-site

$62.25 - $82.75/hr

Join our highly skilled Site Reliability Team The Platform & Reliability Engineering team is responsible for defining, measuring, & optimizing the key performance indicators of delivery customers.

Axon

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer I

Boston, MA · On-site

$134K - $214K/yr

Your Impact As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer within the APX SRE organization, you'll focus on delivering practical, scalable solutions to support the reliability and performance of our mission ...

WEX

SRE Architect, AI-Powered Reliability

Boston, MA · On-site

$62 - $82.25/hr

Our SRE practice is in its early stages, and the decisions made now will define how we build, operate, and continuously improve reliable systems for years to come. This person will define and enforce ...

eNett

SRE Architect, AI-Powered Reliability

Boston, MA · On-site

$62 - $82.25/hr

Our SRE practice is in its early stages, and the decisions made now will define how we build, operate, and continuously improve reliable systems for years to come. This person will define and enforce ...

Ss

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

Waltham, MA · On-site

$130 - $140/hr

Site Reliability EngineerLocation(s) : Waltham, MA | HybridAbout the RoleSr Site Reliability Engineer- Guardian of the products to ensuring systems are reliable, scalable, and efficient enough to ...

WEX

SRE Architect, AI-Powered Reliability

Boston, MA · On-site

$62 - $82.25/hr

The SRE Architect will define and enforce reliability standards and practices, utilizing AI to enhance operational efficiency and resilience across the organization. Responsibilities : • Define ...

Akamai

Senior II Site Reliability Engineer

Cambridge, MA · On-site +1

$263K/yr

Join our SRE team! Our team uses large datasets to analyze and measure the performance and reliability of our platform. We are networking data scientists: we combine our knowledge of data analysis ...

Akamai

Senior II Site Reliability Engineer

Cambridge, MA · On-site

$146K - $263K/yr

Join our SRE team! Our team uses large datasets to analyze and measure the performance and reliability of our platform. We are networking data scientists: we combine our knowledge of data analysis ...

Watershed Informatics

Site Reliability Engineer

Cambridge, MA · On-site

$62.25 - $82.75/hr

We have attracted some of the best bioinformatics, engineering, and commercial talent, and we are growing! Join a team that's intellectually curious with a bias for action, headquartered in Cambridge ...

Mondo

Principal Software Engineer - SRE

Boston, MA · Remote

$130K - $185K/yr

Principal Software Engineer - SRE, location is Remote (ET time zone; CT considered if working ET hours), with quarterly onsite travel to the Boston office. The start date is TBD for this permanent ...

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As of Aug 16, 2026, the average hourly pay for associate site reliability engineer in Boston, MA is $69.25, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $59.52 and $79.13 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is the difference between Associate Site Reliability Engineer vs Software Engineer?

AspectAssociate Site Reliability EngineerSoftware Engineer
Required CredentialsBachelor's in CS or related field, some certifications (e.g., Linux, cloud)Bachelor's in CS or related field, coding certifications often preferred
Work EnvironmentOperations-focused, maintaining system reliability, monitoringDevelopment-focused, designing and coding software applications
Employer & Industry UsageTech companies, cloud providers, SaaS firmsTech companies, startups, software firms
Common Search & Comparison IntentUnderstanding roles in reliability and operationsUnderstanding software development roles

Associate Site Reliability Engineers focus on maintaining system stability, monitoring, and incident response, often working closely with operations teams. Software Engineers primarily develop, test, and deploy software applications. While both roles require strong technical skills and a background in computer science, their core responsibilities differ—one emphasizes reliability and system health, the other software creation.

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Akamai

Cambridge, MA • On-site

$121K - $218K/yr

Full-time

Medical, Life, Retirement, PTO

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Job description


Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?
Do you enjoy solving large scale distributed content delivery challenges?
Join our critical AI Hardware SRE Team!
The AI Hardware SRE team is responsible for overseeing, scaling, and optimizing our next-generation dedicated AI hardware infrastructure. You will be responsible for ensuring best-in-class uptime and reliability of our AI hardware infrastructure offerings.
Partner with the best
In this role, you'll play a part in pioneering the reliability an elite, high-density hardware and software infrastructure spanning the globe. You'll collaborate with product teams from the earliest stages of development to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems. You'll define key performance indicators and defend them when they are breached.
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:
  • Developing and scaling robust programmatic tooling and infrastructure-as-code utilities in Python to eliminate operational toil and automate fleet-wide provisioning.
  • Integrating automated workflows across disconnected corporate ticketing systems to optimize time-to-mitigate metrics for hardware and network break-fix events.
  • Leveraging advanced AI utilities and LLM-assisted development paradigms where appropriate to accelerate technical execution, script authorship, and system analysis
  • Working on cutting-edge private cloud and compute technologies to improve the availability, latency, and overall systemic health of high-density hardware environments.
  • Designing and implementing telemetry pipelines, custom Prometheus/Grafana monitoring dashboards, and AI-based anomaly detection tailored for bare-metal and virtualized environments.
  • Participating in 24x7x365 on-call rotations, spearheading real-time incident management, and managing high-severity service disruption protocols via automated PagerDuty and Slack workflows.
  • Partnering directly with third-party infrastructure vendors and coordinating on-site field technicians to facilitate uptime activities.

Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
  • Have 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
  • Possess tooling and coding ability in languages like Python to construct scalable operational tools, API integrations, and automation frameworks.
  • Show hands-on experience with modern observability stacks and timeseries engines, like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Loki.
  • Possess a working understanding of advanced networking topologies, high-bandwidth routing/switching infrastructure, BGP, and dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 networks.
  • Have experience acting as a key designer for new service rollouts, including establishing operational readiness criteria, telemetry baselines, and alerting thresholds.
  • Demonstrate extensive experience building technical runbooks, leading complex incident response bridges, and driving comprehensive, blameless post-mortems.
  • Display a proven ability to take absolute ownership of ambiguous technical problems, coordinate cross-functional teams, and drive for production-grade solutions.

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.
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Compensation
Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $121,400 - $218,600/year; a candidate's salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

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