Senior Software Engineer - Compute Control Plane

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, 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.

Shape the future of our managed Kubernetes products

With your expertise in Kubernetes and Cloud-Native technologies, you will help design, build, and scale the Kubernetes Product Platform. This opinionated internal Kubernetes platform meets Akamai’s change safety, security, and compliance expectations while giving developers the experience they want. This platform will help bring new products and services to market faster by simplifying performance, reliability, security, and operational needs.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Contributing to the development of a “Golden Path” reference platform built on Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies
• Contributing towards building the roadmap for enterprise features expected from a product platform
• Creating and integrating cloud-native technologies and architectures
• Developing best practices, knowledge sharing, and mentoring
• Collaborating with engineering teams in an Agile environment
• Working in an environment that fosters innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication

Do what you love

To be successful in this role, you will:

• Have 5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Have experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable production services using Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies
• Have experience and solid understanding of containers as well as the technologies that revolve around it
• Be knowledgeable of the Go programming language and comfortable leveraging Python or Bash for scripting needs
• Be familiar using infrastructure as code tools like Crossplane, Pulumi, Terraform or Ansible.
• Possess understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP) and knowledge of Linux based operating systems
• Have experience leveraging CI/CD tools to achieve good software development practices

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

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