Principal Architect (Virtualization and Cloud-Native technologies)

Akamai•Cambridge, MA

8d•$200,000 - $360,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group (CTG) is seeking a Principal Architect with expertise in Operating Systems, Hypervisors, Virtual Machines, and Containers, and strong Cloud-Native tendencies. This role will lead the architecture and design of next-generation infrastructure services for Akamai's public cloud computing platform, which underpins their Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Kubernetes-based products. The architect will work embedded within engineering development teams and as a core member of the Compute system architecture team, contributing to the design and implementation of the Compute Platform and influencing product direction and the engineering roadmap.

Requirements

15 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
Extensive experience building large-scale fault-tolerant, production services using Virtualization and Cloud-Native technologies (e.g. qemu, kvm, Kubernetes, Cilium, etc.)
Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes concepts such as Operator/Controller patterns, custom resources, etc.
Experience and good understanding of operating systems, containers and the technologies that revolve around them (e.g., systemd, docker, containerd, ArgoCD, etc.)
Significant experience with Linux, Go, Python, Bash.
Good understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS with experience in one or more public cloud offerings.

Responsibilities

Owning the system design and implementation, helping to guide engineering while ensuring alignment with the big picture.
Working with product managers and product architects to help inform the product direction.
Contributing to and helping to shape the engineering roadmap by working with product and engineering management and other business stakeholders.
Developing best practices, sharing knowledge, and mentoring.
Collaborating with engineering teams in an Agile environment that fosters innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication.