Cloud Compute Principal Engineer Lead

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 169,000 - 305,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Software Engineer Lead to design and scale ARM64 compute platform functionality and hypervisor layers within the Akamai Connected Cloud.

You will architect, implement, review, and test code across multiple architectures, while shaping technical strategy for hardware enablement and multi-architecture deployment. You will lead a team, collaborate with global teams, and drive performance optimization across KVM/QEMU-based virtualization and container

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 12 years of relevant experience.
• Deep familiarity with ARM64/AArch64 and x86_64 server platforms.
• Experience with cross-compilation toolchains and multi-architecture deployment.
• Experience with cloud compute virtualization technologies (KVM, QEMU) and container runtimes.

Responsibilities

• Architecting and scaling high-density ARM64 compute platform functionality and hypervisor layers across ACC.
• Designing, implementing, reviewing, documenting, and testing high-quality code in collaboration with the team.
• Leading technical strategy for hardware enablement, cross-platform build pipelines, and workload performance optimization.
• Coordinating with global teams to build new compute features or resolve low-level software bugs.
• Providing leadership to a team of engineers.

Skills

CPU architectures

ARM64/AArch64

x86_64 server

cross-compilation

system profiling

multi-architecture deployment

KVM/QEMU virtualization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

KVM

QEMU

Container runtimes

Hypervisor integration

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Software Engineer Lead to design and scale ARM64 compute platform functionality and hypervisor layers within the Akamai Connected Cloud.

You will architect, implement, review, and test code across multiple architectures, while shaping technical strategy for hardware enablement and multi-architecture deployment. You will lead a team, collaborate with global teams, and drive performance optimization across KVM/QEMU-based virtualization and container