Senior II Software Engineer Lead – Akamai Inference Cloud

🕒 March 19

🇵🇱 Poland – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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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

• Leading the design and implementation of critical platform components for Akamai Inference Cloud, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability. • Driving technical decisions for your domain, selecting appropriate tools, frameworks, and architectural approaches for secure, scalable, and high-performance inference platform services. • Leading the evolution of platform capabilities including authentication, load balancing, rate limiting, firewall integration, and externally facing API patterns. • Designing and improving data plane APIs, including OpenAI-compatible interfaces and other standards required to support diverse inference and AI application workloads. • Defining and advancing platform observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, and operational diagnostics for distributed systems at scale. • Driving capacity planning and scalability strategies to ensure the platform can support growth in traffic, models, and regional deployments. • Leading Kubernetes-based orchestration patterns for platform services, helping ensure efficient, resilient, and operable deployment of containerized workloads. • Mentoring and guiding engineers on the team through code reviews, design discussions, and technical problem-solving.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ of software engineering expertise with 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, incorporating 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 by guiding, 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

• Your health • Your finances • Your family • Your time at work • Your time pursuing other endeavors