Senior Architect - Compute Virtualization

Job Description

Are you a Linux, kernel, and hypervisor expert looking to jump into architecture while remaining hands-on?

Come join Akamai Cloud!
Akamai's Cloud Technology Group (CTG) takes ownership for designing, building, maintaining and operating our public cloud computing platform. 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 our IaaS platform.

Job Description

Are you a Linux, kernel, and hypervisor expert looking to jump into architecture while remaining hands-on?

Are you passionate about the system architecture and design of our Compute Platform, building the foundation for our Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Kubernetes-based products and services?

Come join Akamai Cloud!
Akamai's Cloud Technology Group (CTG) takes ownership for designing, building, maintaining and operating our public cloud computing platform. 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 our IaaS platform.

Shape the future of Akamai's Cloud Infrastructure
We are looking for a Senior Architect with expertise in Operating Systems, Hypervisors, Virtual Machines, and Containers, along with Cloud-Native tendencies, to lead the architecture and design of next‑generation infrastructure services. In this role, you will be working embedded as part of engineering development teams, engaging as a core member of the Compute system architecture team.

As a Senior Architect, You Will Be Responsible For

• Owning the system design and implementation, helping to guide engineering while ensuring alignment with the big picture
• Building proof of concepts to help make design choices and recommend technologies
• 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

Do What You Love
To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent
• Demonstrate extensive experience building and operating highly available, fault‑tolerant, and large‑scale distributed production services using Virtualization and Cloud‑Native technologies (e.g. qemu, kvm, Cilium, etc.)
• Have advanced knowledge of operating systems, linux internals, virtualization technologies, hypervisors, performance optimization
• Have experience and solid understanding of containers and the technologies that revolve around them (e.g., systemd, docker, containerd, Kubernetes, 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

About Us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our Focus Is Simple

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