Senior II Platform Engineer Lead – Akamai Inference Cloud

• Lead the design and implementation of critical platform components for Akamai Inference Cloud
• Drive technical decisions involving tools, frameworks, and architectural approaches for platform services
• Lead platform capabilities including authentication, load balancing, rate limiting, firewall integration, and externally facing API patterns
• Design and improve data plane APIs, including OpenAI-compatible interfaces
• Define and advance observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, and operational diagnostics
• Drive capacity planning and scalability strategies for traffic, models, and regional deployments
• Lead Kubernetes-based orchestration patterns for containerized platform workloads
• Mentor and guide engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and technical problem-solving

• Advanced proficiency 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
• Advanced expertise in cloud-native architectures, including 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 experience guiding engineers, promoting code quality, and delivering solutions for intricate platform challenges
• Experience designing and operating API platforms, including authentication, authorization, traffic management, and service protection patterns
• Extensive expertise in observability, monitoring, alerting, and debugging processes for large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with capacity planning, performance analysis, and reliability engineering for production services

• FlexBase global flexible working program, with the choice to work from home, the office, or both in Poland
• Benefits designed around health, finances, family, time at work, and other endeavors
• Benefit plan options designed to meet individual needs and budget
• Opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things