Senior Architect - Compute Virtualization

Akamai•Cambridge, MA

1d•$169,300 - $304,700•Hybrid

About The Position

Are you a Linux, kernel, and hypervisor expert looking to jump into architecture while remaining hands-on? Are you passionate about the system architecture and design of our Compute Platform, building the foundation for our Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Kubernetes-based products and services? Come join Akamai Cloud! Akamai's Cloud Technology Group (CTG) takes ownership for designing, building, maintaining and operating our public cloud computing platform. 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 our IaaS platform. Shape the future of Akamai's Cloud Infrastructure. We are looking for a Senior Architect with expertise in Operating Systems, Hypervisors, Virtual Machines, and Containers, along with Cloud-Native tendencies, to lead the architecture and design of next-generation infrastructure services. In this role, you will be working embedded as part of engineering development teams, engaging as a core member of the Compute system architecture team.

Requirements

12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent
Extensive experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, and large-scale distributed production services using Virtualization and Cloud-Native technologies (e.g. qemu, kvm, Cilium, etc.)
Advanced knowledge of operating systems, linux internals, virtualization technologies, hypervisors, performance optimization
Experience and solid understanding of containers and the technologies that revolve around them (e.g., systemd, docker, containerd, Kubernetes, etc.)
Significant experience with Linux, Go, Python, Bash
A 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
Building proof of concepts to help make design choices and recommend technologies
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