Software Engineer - Akamai Inference Cloud - Remote/Poland

Akamai Technologies; Kraków; On-site; PLN 192,554 - 278,134; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Financial benefits

Family support

Flexible working hours

Time for personal endeavors

Job summary

A global technology firm is seeking a Software Engineer to join their team in Kraków, Poland. You will be responsible for designing and implementing key platform features for a robust AI inference system. The ideal candidate has a solid background in software engineering and experience with distributed systems and cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes and APIs. Join us for flexible work arrangements, great benefits, and the opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge AI solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience in backend systems, cloud services, or platform engineering.
• Proficiency in developing distributed or service-oriented applications.
• Familiarity with modern deployment workflows.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain platform components for scalability and reliability.
• Contribute to services for the data plane.
• Support API service functionality development.
• Build data plane APIs aligned with OpenAI-compatible patterns.
• Write clean, maintainable, and tested code for cloud services.
• Assist with observability by contributing metrics and diagnostics.
• Support Kubernetes-based deployment and orchestration.
• Collaborate in code reviews and design discussions.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Proficiency in building and debugging distributed applications

Familiarity with cloud-native technologies

Experience developing APIs or backend services

Understanding of operational practices

Familiarity with observability concepts

Interest in internet-facing platform services

Curiosity about AI inference platforms

Tools

Kubernetes

Containerization tools

Job description

Job Description

Do you enjoy building reliable, scalable systems that power modern AI platforms? Are you excited to work on the platform foundations behind global AI inference services? Join the Akamai Inference Cloud Team! The Akamai Inference Cloud team is part of Akamai's Cloud Technology Group. We build AI platforms for efficient, compliant, and high‑performing applications. These platforms support customers in running inference models and empower developers to create advanced AI solutions effectively. #AIC

Partner with the best

As a Software Engineer, contribute to designing, implementing, and operating core platform capabilities for a global AI inference platform. Collaborate with experienced engineers to build secure, scalable, and reliable services supporting workloads across regions. Focus areas include authentication, load balancing, firewalls, Kubernetes orchestration, and APIs. Solid engineering fundamentals, problem‑solving skills, and interest in distributed systems and AI infrastructure are essential.

As a Software Engineer, You Will Be Responsible For

• Implementing and maintaining platform components for Akamai Inference Cloud, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and operability.
• Contributing to services across ingress, gateway, and data plane layers under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Supporting the development of platform capabilities such as authentication, traffic handling, and API service functionality.
• Helping build and improve data plane APIs, including interfaces aligned with OpenAI‑compatible patterns and other supported standards.
• Writing clean, maintainable, and well‑tested code for cloud‑native services running in containerized environments.
• Assisting with observability by contributing metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and operational diagnostics for distributed systems.
• Supporting Kubernetes‑based deployment and orchestration of platform services in production environments.
• Collaborating with teammates in code reviews, design discussions, testing, and incident support to improve platform quality and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Bring software engineering experience, with a solid foundation in backend systems, cloud services, or platform engineering.
• Show proficiency in building and debugging distributed or service‑oriented applications.
• Have familiarity with cloud‑native technologies such as containers, Kubernetes, and modern deployment workflows.
• Demonstrate experience developing APIs or backend services with attention to reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Show understanding of core operational practices including testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Have familiarity with observability concepts such as metrics, logs, and tracing in production systems.
• Bring interest in internet‑facing platform services such as ingress, authentication, load balancing, or API infrastructure.
• Show curiosity about AI inference platforms, model serving systems, or infrastructure used to support LLM and inference workloads.

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. FlexBase gives 95% of employees the choice to work from home, the office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

Benefits

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

About Us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!