Principal Software Engineer Lead; Kubernetes Product Platform

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group Compute division formerly Linode, 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.

With your expertise in Kubernetes and Cloud-Native technologies, you will help design, build, and scale the Kubernetes Product Platform. This opinionated internal Kubernetes platform meets Akamai's change safety, security, and compliance expectations while giving developers the experience they want. This platform will help bring new products and services to market faster by simplifying performance, reliability, security, and operational needs.

As a Principal Software Engineer Lead, you will be responsible for:

• Leading the development of the cloud native platform 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
• Leading and collaborating with engineering teams in an Agile environment
• Fostering an environment that encourages innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent.
• Possess leadership experience in Cloud Native Platform Engineering, driving toward an enabled ecosystem of capabilities within our organization.
• Have experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable production services using Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies.
• Demonstrate expert knowledge of the Go programming language and be comfortable leveraging Python or Bash for scripting needs.
• Express expertise in networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP) and knowledge of Linux-based operating systems.
• Have expertise leveraging CI/CD tools to achieve good software development practices.

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