3 days ago
Base Salary
$200k - $360k/yr
Responsibilities
- Identify critical improvements for inclusion in the cloud platform roadmap.
- Collaborate with solution-specific architects to define architectures supporting a unified cloud platform vision.
- Build consensus around long-term technical strategy across product lines and engineering teams.
- Engage external partners and internal stakeholders to advance platform evolution goals.
- Align cloud platform architecture with other product goals.
- Provide high-level technical guidance and hands-on design leadership as needed.
- Evaluate and justify technology choices and modernize or refactor systems for enterprise-grade scalability, reliability, and observability.
Requirements
- 12 years of relevant experience.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
- Extensive experience developing and documenting architectures for large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience with high-availability software systems and methods for achieving security, reliability, and operability objectives.
- Working knowledge of Internet protocols including routing, TCP/IP, DNS, and HTTP.
- Working knowledge of computer security technologies including TLS, PKI, and VPN.
- Expertise in cloud workload management for containers and virtual machines and in control-plane paradigms such as push, pull, segmentation, and reconciliation.
- Extensive understanding of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS, with experience in one or more public cloud offerings.
- Experience evaluating and justifying technology choices.
- Experience modernizing and refactoring system designs for scalability, reliability, and observability.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangement through FlexBase, allowing employees to work from home, in an office, or in a combination of both.
- Healthcare, 401(k) savings plan, company holidays, PTO, sick time, parental leave, and an employee assistance program focused on mental and financial wellness.
- Potential annual bonus or incentive compensation, equity awards, and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Benefits eligibility requirements apply.
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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.