[Hiring] Principal Software Engineer Lead @Akamai

Role Description

Would revolutionizing the cloud computing space excite you? Are you passionate about pushing the limits of scale for cloud-native technologies? Join our Compute Team!

Akamai’s Cloud Technology Group Compute division, formerly Linode and now Akamai Cloud, is made up of collaborative, inclusive, and creative teams. 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 on our IaaS platform.

With your expertise in Kubernetes and Cloud-Native technologies, you will provide technical and architectural leadership to design, build, and scale our Next Generation Control Plane. You will lead the transformation toward a highly available, resilient, and distributed microservices architecture designed to support massive-scale operations seamlessly.

As a Principal Software Engineer Lead, you will be responsible for:

• Leading the development of the cloud native control plane built on Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies
• Contributing to and helping shape the engineering roadmap by working with management and business stakeholders
• Contributing to enterprise features expected from a cloud native platform
• Developing best practices, knowledge sharing, and mentoring
• Leading and collaborating with engineering teams in an Agile environment
• Fostering an environment that encourages innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Thought leadership in Cloud Native Platform Engineering, driving toward an enabled ecosystem of capabilities within our organization
• Experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable production services using Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies
• Expertise in containers as well as the technologies that revolve around them
• Expert knowledge of the Go programming language and comfort leveraging Python or Bash for scripting needs
• Expertise in networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP) and knowledge of Linux-based operating systems
• Expertise leveraging CI/CD tools to achieve good software development practices

Benefits

• Support for health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work
• FlexBase adapts to your job's needs
• Commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience
• Trust in employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both