Senior Architect – Compute Virtualization

🕒 October 7

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $169.3k - $304.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏛️ Architect

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Akamai Technologies

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5001 - 10000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2001-07

Cloud Computing • Cybersecurity • Content Delivery

Akamai Technologies is a leading cloud services provider that specializes in delivering security, cloud computing, and content delivery solutions. It offers a range of services such as API security, DDoS protection, and performance optimization for web applications, ensuring secure and reliable user experiences. With a robust global infrastructure, Akamai empowers businesses to streamline their digital presence while safeguarding against various cyber threats and enhancing application performance.

📋 Description

• Own system design and implementation while guiding engineering and ensuring alignment with the broader architecture • Build proof of concepts to support design choices and recommend technologies • Work with product managers and product architects to inform product direction • Shape the engineering roadmap with product and engineering management and business stakeholders • Develop best practices, share knowledge, and mentor others • Collaborate with engineering teams in an Agile environment • Lead architecture and design of next-generation infrastructure services for Akamai's public cloud computing platform • Work embedded within engineering development teams as a core member of the Compute system architecture team

🎯 Requirements

• 12 years of relevant experience • Bachelor's degree or its equivalent • Experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, and large-scale distributed production services • Experience with virtualization and cloud-native technologies, such as qemu, kvm, and Cilium • Advanced knowledge of operating systems, Linux internals, virtualization technologies, hypervisors, and performance optimization • Experience and solid understanding of containers and related technologies, including systemd, Docker, containerd, and Kubernetes • Significant experience with Linux, Go, Python, and Bash • Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS • Experience with one or more public cloud offerings

🏖️ 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 through FlexBase: at home, in an office, or a combination of both