Principal Software Engineer Lead - Compute Control Plane - Remote

Would revolutionizing the cloud computing space excite you?

Are you passionate about pushing the limits of scale for cloud-native technologies?

Join our Compute Team
Akamai’s Cloud Technology Group Compute division, formerly Linode and now Akamai Cloud, is made up of collaborative, inclusive, and creative teams. We develop applications and services to empower our customers. Our mission is to accelerate innovation by making cloud computing simple, scalable, affordable, and accessible to all. We design, develop, test, and maintain products that run on our IaaS platform.

Shape the future of our Akamai Cloud
With your expertise in Kubernetes and Cloud-Native technologies, you will provide technical and architectural leadership to design, build, and scale our Next Generation Control Plane. You will lead the transformation toward a highly available, resilient, and distributed microservices architecture designed to support massive-scale operations seamlessly.
As a Principal Software Engineer Lead,



you will be responsible for:
Leading the development of the cloud native control plane built on Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies Contributing to and helping shape the engineering roadmap by working with management and business stakeholders Contributing to enterprise features expected from a cloud native platform Developing best practices, knowledge sharing, and mentoring Lead and collaborate with engineering teams in an Agile environment Foster an environment that encourages innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication
Do what you love
To be successful in this role, you will:
Have + years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field Thought leadership in Cloud Native Platform Engineering, driving toward an enabled ecosystem of capabilities within our organization Have experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolera

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