Principal Architect

Akamai•Cambridge, MA

3h•Hybrid

About The Position

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group (CTG) is responsible for designing, building, maintaining, and operating their global CDN and compute platform. They develop and deploy critical technologies that provide the technical underpinnings for all of Akamai's products, ensuring consistent security, reliability, and availability for customers. As a Principal Architect, you will drive the evolution of Akamai's platform architectures, leading cross-engineering efforts to identify, prioritize, and design solutions for critical platform system initiatives. These initiatives will form the foundation for all of Akamai's products and services. This role reports to the CTO of Akamai's global cloud platform.

Requirements

15 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
Extensive experience developing and documenting architectures for large-scale distributed systems.
Able to clearly articulate design decisions to implementation teams.
Solid experience with high availability software systems and methods for achieving service security, reliability and operability objectives.
Self-motivated; have effective communication skills and be able to influence and motivate others.
Possess working knowledge of Internet protocols (routing, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, etc.) and computer security (OS, containers, protocols).
Have a good understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS with experience in one or more public cloud offerings.

Responsibilities

Identifying critical improvements for inclusion in the platform systems roadmap.
Collaborating with architects across engineering to define solutions for delivering our platform roadmap.
Socializing and building consensus around technical strategy decisions across product lines and teams to advance our platform vision.
Engaging with both external partners and stakeholders across the company to achieve our platform evolution goals.
Working with counterparts in engineering to ensure that our platform architecture aligns well with other product goals.

Benefits

Opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things.
Benefit options designed to meet individual needs for today and in the future.
Benefits surrounding all aspects of your life: Your health, Your finances, Your family, Your time at work, Your time pursuing other endeavors.
Industry-leading benefits including healthcare.
401K savings plan.
Company holidays.
Vacation (in the form of PTO).
Sick time.
Family friendly benefits including parental leave.
Employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness.
Compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives.
Equity awards.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).