8 hours ago
Base Salary
$169k - $305k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own system design and implementation for next-generation compute and infrastructure services.
- Guide engineering teams while ensuring alignment with overall system architecture.
- Build proofs of concept, evaluate design choices, and recommend technologies.
- Collaborate with product managers, product architects, engineering management, and business stakeholders to shape product direction and engineering roadmaps.
- Develop best practices, share knowledge, and mentor engineers.
- Collaborate with engineering teams in an Agile environment.
Requirements
- 12 years of relevant experience.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
- Extensive experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, large-scale distributed production services using virtualization and cloud-native technologies.
- Advanced knowledge of operating systems, Linux internals, virtualization technologies, hypervisors, and performance optimization.
- Solid understanding of containers and related technologies, including systemd, Docker, containerd, and Kubernetes.
- Significant experience with Linux, Go, Python, and Bash.
- Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS, with experience using one or more public cloud offerings.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangement through FlexBase, including working from home, in an office, or 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 an Employee Stock Purchase Plan; eligibility requirements apply.
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.