Principal Software Engineer Lead – Compute Control Plane

• Lead development of the cloud-native control plane built on Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies
• Provide technical and architectural leadership for designing, building, and scaling the next-generation control plane
• Lead transformation toward a highly available, resilient, distributed microservices architecture
• Shape the engineering roadmap with management and business stakeholders
• Contribute to enterprise features for a cloud-native platform
• Develop best practices, share knowledge, and mentor others
• Lead and collaborate with engineering teams in an Agile environment
• Foster innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication

• 10+ years of relevant experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Thought leadership in Cloud Native Platform Engineering
• Experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable production services using Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies
• Expert knowledge of containers and related technologies
• Expert knowledge of Go
• Comfort leveraging Python or Bash for scripting
• Expertise in networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, and HTTP
• Knowledge of Linux-based operating systems
• Expertise leveraging CI/CD tools
• Ability to lead and collaborate with engineering teams in an Agile environment

• Health, well-being, financial, and life benefits
• Flexible work arrangements through Akamai's FlexBase program: work at home, in an office, or a combination of both