Principal Architect – Virtualization and Cloud-Native Technologies
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Lead the architecture and design of next-generation infrastructure services at Akamai. Collaborate with engineering teams and contribute to cloud IaaS products.
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.
Requirements:
- 15 years of relevant experience
- 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.
Benefits:
- 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


















