Principal Architect

🕒 April 20

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $200k - $360k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🏛️ Architect

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Akamai Technologies

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5001 - 10000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

🏢 Enterprise

📱 Media

Cybersecurity • Enterprise • Media

Akamai Technologies is a global edge platform and cloud services company that delivers content delivery, edge computing, and security solutions. The company operates one of the world’s largest distributed networks to accelerate and protect web, media, and application traffic, offering products for content delivery, DDoS protection, API and app security, bot management, edge compute (serverless/edge functions), and AI inference at the edge. Akamai also provides enterprise-focused security services (zero trust, identity and access management, secure internet access) and cloud/AI infrastructure tools, and has recently expanded capabilities through acquisitions (for example LayerX) to add browser-based AI usage control.

📋 Description

• Drive the evolution of Akamai's platform architectures, leading cross-engineering efforts to identify, prioritize, and design solutions for critical platform system initiatives • 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

🎯 Requirements

• Have 15 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent • Demonstrate extensive experience developing and documenting architectures for large-scale distributed systems • Able to clearly articulate design decisions to implementation teams • Have solid experience with high availability software systems and methods for achieving service security, reliability and operability objectives • Be 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

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 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