Principal Software Engineer – Lead

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $169.3k - $304.7k / year

⏰ 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

• 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