18 hours ago
Remote, Poland or Kraków, PolandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define compute-platform strategy and qualification criteria for x64, ARM, accelerator, and inference hardware across firmware, operating systems, runtimes, and reliability.
- Design and improve reproducible, safe, scalable bare-metal provisioning, imaging, configuration, and infrastructure delivery pipelines.
- Drive observability, telemetry, diagnostics, capacity analysis, safe rollouts, and production recovery safeguards.
- Investigate complex hardware and software incidents, determine root causes, and guide engineering fixes and operational decisions.
- Review designs, mentor engineers, establish technical standards, and resolve multi-domain issues across teams and vendors.
Requirements
- Deep expertise with Linux systems and server platforms, including boot processes, storage, networking, hardware diagnostics, firmware, BIOS/UEFI, BMCs, and server lifecycles.
- Experience designing and operating bare-metal provisioning, configuration management, and scalable infrastructure automation.
- Fluency in Python and Bash, with experience building automation, APIs, deployment pipelines, and debugging multi-layer failures.
- Ability to identify whether hardware-test failures originate in firmware, BIOS/UEFI configuration, device firmware, kernel or driver behavior, or the physical test environment.
- Expertise in observability, metrics, capacity analysis, incident root-cause investigation, and production readiness.
- Practical knowledge of x86 and ARM platforms, accelerators, inference infrastructure, drivers, runtimes, and compatibility.
- Hands-on experience with Linux virtualization technologies including KVM, QEMU, and libvirt.
- Understanding of nested virtualization, CPU virtualization extensions, VM networking and storage, and Linux troubleshooting of virtualized environments.
Benefits
- Benefits supporting employee health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work.
- Flexible work arrangements through FlexBase, including working from home, in an office, or a combination of both.
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.