Principal Architect (Virtualization and Cloud-Native technologies)

Would revolutionizing the cloud computing space excite you?

Are you passionate about the system architecture and design of our Compute Platform, building the foundation for our Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Kubernetes-based products and services?

Come join Akamai Cloud!

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group (CTG) takes ownership for designing, building, maintaining and operating our public cloud computing platform. We develop applications and services to empower our customers. Our mission is to accelerate innovation by making cloud computing simple, scalable, affordable, and accessible to all. We design, develop, test, and maintain products that run our IaaS platform.

Partner with the best

We are looking for a Principal Architect with expertise in Operating Systems, Hypervisors, Virtual Machines, and Containers, with good Cloud-Native tendencies, to lead the architecture and design of next-generation infrastructure services. In this role, you will be working embedded as part of engineering development teams, engaging as a core member of the Compute system architecture team.

As a Principal,Architect, you will be responsible for:

• Owning the system design and implementation, helping to guide engineering while ensuring alignment with the big picture.
• Working with product managers and product architects to help inform the product direction.
• Contributing to and helping to shape the engineering roadmap by working with product and engineering management and other business stakeholders.
• Developing best practices, sharing knowledge, and mentoring.
• Collaborating with engineering teams in an Agile environment that fosters innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 15 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
• Demonstrate extensive experience building large-scale fault-tolerant, production services using Virtualization and Cloud-Native technologies (e.g. qemu, kvm, Kubernetes, Cilium, etc.)
• Have advanced knowledge of Kubernetes concepts such as Operator/Controller patterns, custom resources, etc.
• Have experience and good understanding of operating systems, containers and the technologies that revolve around them (e.g., systemd, docker, containerd, ArgoCD, etc.)
• Demonstrate significant experience with Linux, Go, Python, Bash.
• Have a good understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS with experience in one or more public cloud offerings

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.

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We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $200,000 - $360,000/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.