• Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems across R2 • Own the product and solution architecture • Ensure best practices and uptime • Contribute to company-wide standards and reliability • Ensure delivery of mission-critical systems with tight deadlines • Increase the quality of the delivered code, towards a zero-bug policy • Research and invest in new tooling to improve services • Think about security throughout everything you do • Promote a culture that fosters learning, growth, risk taking, and accountability • Work with other teams to figure out how to build tools to make them more productive

• Design and build backend services and user interfaces to support certificate issuance, lifecycle management, automation, and integrations with internal and external systems • Develop and optimize SQL queries and database schemas • Work on certificate provisioning workflows, APIs, and system integrations, troubleshoot and resolve production issues with ownership mindset • Collaborate with product, QA, and DevOps teams for smooth feature delivery • Propose innovative solutions to improve system performance, automation, and reliability • Contribute to design discussions, code reviews, and documentation

• Helping build out cloud platform functionality that sets up, manages, and protects networking in the Akamai Connected Cloud. • Working on and extending our local Linux container network development environment. • Designing, implementing, reviewing, documenting, and testing high quality code in close collaboration with your team. • Working closely with local peers, and coordinating with teams globally as part of building on new features or dealing with bugs from users.

• Lead technical initiatives that directly impact platform scalability and reliability • Scale our systems from PostgreSQL to event-driven architecture, designing for tens of millions of MAU • Drive monolith-to-services decomposition using proven patterns you have executed before • Design and implement database optimisation strategies for high-throughput workloads • Build and scale AI infrastructure, including vector stores, embedding pipelines, and LLM orchestration • Architect systems for AI-powered features, including automated chat, content moderation, and recommendations • Use AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) to accelerate delivery and help define team standards • Build platform primitives that enable other teams to ship faster • Mentor engineers across the organisation through code reviews, design sessions, and pairing • Contribute to architecture decisions and technical strategy • Participate in incident response and drive reliability improvements