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Principal Software Engineer leading VM control-plane design, placement, reconciliation, and orchestration. Building scalable compute infrastructure for Akamai’s distributed cloud and edge platform.
Responsibilities:
- Own the design of the control plane that places, reconciles, and operates VMs across the Compute fleet
- Define the database partitioning and sharding strategy to scale control plane state management 5x
- Develop capacity models for placement and inventory state
- Own the placement reconciliation loop, including desired-state modeling, idempotent reconcilers, drift detection, and reconciliation-lag SLOs
- Generalize bulk and asynchronous operations into one model with standard operation resources, batching, concurrency caps, and automatic halt on failure thresholds
- Set consistency guarantees per data path
- Enforce idempotency and fencing on controller actions
- Specify saga-style workflows
Requirements:
- 12 years of experience in building distributed systems, along with experience owning control planes or large-scale orchestration or equivalent
- Deep database experience with SQL, including partitioning, sharding, replication, and online schema change
- Experience building asynchronous systems, including durable task queues, event-driven workflows, and retry and backpressure design
- Hands-on experience building and operating containerized applications, including Kubernetes
- Competence in Python or Go
- Experience with the other language or ColdFusion is good, but not required
- Deep understanding of consistency, including leases, fencing, idempotency, and optimistic concurrency
- Hands-on experience with reconciliation or controller patterns, such as Kubernetes-style controllers or equivalent
Benefits:
- Annual bonus or incentives
- Equity awards
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Healthcare
- 401K savings plan
- Company holidays
- Vacation (in the form of PTO)
- Sick time
- Parental leave
- Employee assistance program
- Mental and financial wellness support
- Flexible work arrangements: at home, in an office, or a combination of both
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