Senior II Platform Engineer Lead – Akamai Inference Cloud

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🇵🇱 Poland – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Akamai Technologies

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

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

• Lead the design and implementation of critical platform components for Akamai Inference Cloud • Drive technical decisions involving tools, frameworks, and architectural approaches for platform services • Lead platform capabilities including authentication, load balancing, rate limiting, firewall integration, and externally facing API patterns • Design and improve data plane APIs, including OpenAI-compatible interfaces • Define and advance observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, and operational diagnostics • Drive capacity planning and scalability strategies for traffic, models, and regional deployments • Lead Kubernetes-based orchestration patterns for containerized platform workloads • Mentor and guide engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and technical problem-solving

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced proficiency in distributed systems, cloud services, and platform engineering • Deep experience building and operating internet-facing platform services such as API gateways, ingress layers, reverse proxies, or service infrastructure • Advanced expertise in cloud-native architectures, including containerization and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes • Proven experience building scalable, high-performance systems with modern DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code • Technical leadership experience guiding engineers, promoting code quality, and delivering solutions for intricate platform challenges • Experience designing and operating API platforms, including authentication, authorization, traffic management, and service protection patterns • Extensive expertise in observability, monitoring, alerting, and debugging processes for large-scale distributed systems • Experience with capacity planning, performance analysis, and reliability engineering for production services

🏖️ Benefits

• FlexBase global flexible working program, with the choice to work from home, the office, or both in Poland • Benefits designed around health, finances, family, time at work, and other endeavors • Benefit plan options designed to meet individual needs and budget • Opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things