AI Inference Platform Lead Engineer (Remote)

Akamai Career Site; Polska; Remote; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai is seeking a Senior II Platform Engineer Lead to design and implement foundational components for a global AI inference platform. You will own distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and API infrastructure, guiding architectural decisions and mentoring engineers.

You will drive Kubernetes-based orchestration, authentication, load balancing, observability, and capacity planning to ensure scalable, secure services across Akamai’s cloud ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with distributed systems and cloud-native platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of critical platform components for Akamai Inference Cloud.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud services

Platform engineering

API infrastructure

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Tools

Kubernetes

API gateways

OpenAI interfaces

CI/CD

IaC

Job description

Akamai is seeking a Senior II Platform Engineer Lead to design and implement foundational components for a global AI inference platform. You will own distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and API infrastructure, guiding architectural decisions and mentoring engineers.

You will drive Kubernetes-based orchestration, authentication, load balancing, observability, and capacity planning to ensure scalable, secure services across Akamai’s cloud ecosystem.