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Senior II Software Engineer – Akamai Inference Cloud
Location
Massachusetts + 1 moreAll locations: Massachusetts | Poland
Posted
71 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior II Software Engineer – Akamai Inference Cloud
Akamai Technologies
• Design and implement core capabilities for a globally distributed AI inference platform. • Drive technical decisions for your domain, selecting appropriate tools, frameworks, and approaches for AI inference workloads. • Lead the evolution of platform capabilities including authentication, load balancing, rate limiting, and firewall integration. • Design and improve data plane APIs, including OpenAI-compatible interfaces and other standards. • Define and advance platform observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, and operational diagnostics. • Drive capacity planning and scalability strategies to support growth in traffic, models, and regional deployments. • Lead Kubernetes-based orchestration patterns for platform services. • Mentor and guide engineers on the team through code reviews, design discussions, and technical problem-solving.
Job Requirements
- 8+ of software engineering experience with expertise in distributed systems, cloud services, and platform engineering.
- Deep experience building and operating internet-facing platform services such as API gateways, ingress layers, reverse proxies, or service infrastructure.
- Expertise in cloud-native architectures, incorporating containerization and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes.
- Proven experience building scalable, high-performance systems with modern DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Technical leadership by mentoring, promoting code quality, and delivering effective solutions to address complex platform challenges.
- Experience designing and operating API platforms, including authentication, authorization, traffic management, and service protection patterns.
- Expertise in observability, monitoring, alerting, and debugging practices for managing large-scale distributed systems effectively.
- Experience with capacity planning, performance analysis, and reliability engineering for production services.
Benefits
- Your health
- Your finances
- Your family
- Your time at work
- Your time pursuing other endeavors
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