4 days ago
Remote, Poland or Kraków, PolandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of critical platform components for a global AI inference platform.
- Drive technical decisions involving tools, frameworks, architectures, and platform service design.
- Evolve authentication, load balancing, rate limiting, firewall integration, and externally facing API patterns.
- Design and improve data-plane APIs, including OpenAI-compatible interfaces.
- Define observability capabilities covering metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, and operational diagnostics.
- Drive capacity planning and scalability strategies for growing traffic, models, and regional deployments.
- Lead Kubernetes-based orchestration patterns for resilient containerized platform services.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and technical problem-solving.
Requirements
- Advanced software engineering expertise in distributed systems, cloud services, and platform engineering.
- Deep experience building and operating internet-facing platform services such as API gateways, ingress layers, reverse proxies, or service infrastructure.
- Advanced expertise in cloud-native architectures, containerization, and Kubernetes orchestration.
- Proven experience building scalable, high-performance systems using modern DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Technical leadership experience guiding engineers, promoting code quality, and solving complex platform challenges.
- Experience designing and operating API platforms with authentication, authorization, traffic management, and service protection patterns.
- Extensive expertise in observability, monitoring, alerting, and debugging for large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience with capacity planning, performance analysis, and reliability engineering for production services.
Benefits
- Permanent flexible work options allow employees to work from home, from the office, or both in Poland.
- Benefits cover health, finances, family, time at work, and personal pursuits.
- Akamai provides opportunities for professional growth and development.
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About Akamai
Akamai builds content delivery, cloud security, and edge compute services for enterprises that run consumer and business web, API, and video workloads. The public company (NASDAQ: AKAM), founded in 1998 and headquartered in Cambridge, MA, operates a global CDN and security platform and sells via subscriptions and usage-based services. It expanded into cloud infrastructure by acquiring Linode in 2022, offering IaaS and managed Kubernetes.