[Hiring] Principal Architect @Akamai

Role Description

As a Principal Architect, you will drive the evolution of Akamai's platform architectures, leading cross-engineering efforts to identify, prioritize, and design solutions for critical platform system initiatives whose execution will form the foundation for all of Akamai's products and services.

• Identifying critical improvements for inclusion in the platform systems roadmap.
• Collaborating with architects across engineering to define solutions for delivering our platform roadmap.
• Socializing and building consensus around technical strategy decisions across product lines and teams to advance our platform vision.
• Engaging with both external partners and stakeholders across the company to achieve our platform evolution goals.
• Working with counterparts in engineering to ensure that our platform architecture aligns well with other product goals.

Qualifications

• 15 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
• Extensive experience developing and documenting architectures for large-scale distributed systems.
• Able to clearly articulate design decisions to implementation teams.
• Solid experience with high availability software systems and methods for achieving service security, reliability and operability objectives.
• Self-motivated with effective communication skills and the ability to influence and motivate others.
• Working knowledge of Internet protocols (routing, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, etc.) and computer security (OS, containers, protocols).
• Good understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS with experience in one or more public cloud offerings.

Benefits

• Opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things.
• Benefits surrounding all aspects of your life, including:
• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors
• 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 focused on mental and financial wellness.

Company Description

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day.

• With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge, we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications.
• We keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.