Chief Architect - IaaS Platform & Products

Principal Architect – Cloud Platform

Lead the architecture and design of next‑generation infrastructure services for Akamai’s Cloud Technology Group, focusing on operating systems, hypervisors, virtual machines, and containers with strong cloud‑native expertise.

• Owning the system design and implementation, helping to guide engineering while ensuring alignment with the big picture.
• Working with product managers and product architects to help inform the product direction.
• Contributing to and helping to shape the engineering roadmap by working with product and engineering management and other business stakeholders.
• Developing best practices, sharing knowledge, and mentoring.
• Collaborating with engineering teams in an Agile environment that fosters innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication.

• Have 15 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
• Demonstrate extensive experience building large‑scale fault‑tolerant, production services using Virtualization and Cloud‑Native technologies (e.g. qemu, kvm, Kubernetes, Cilium, etc.)
• Have advanced knowledge of Kubernetes concepts such as Operator/Controller patterns, custom resources, etc.
• Have experience and good understanding of operating systems, containers and the technologies that revolve around them (e.g., systemd, docker, containerd, ArgoCD, etc.)
• Demonstrate significant experience with Linux, Go, Python, Bash.
• Have a good understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS with experience in one or more public cloud offerings

We support your health, well‑being, finances, and life beyond work. Our compensation program includes competitive base salary, incentive and equity opportunities, and industry‑leading benefits such as healthcare, 401(k), paid time off, family‑friendly leave, and wellness programs.