Lead Cloud Compute Architect (ARM64/x86)

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Olympia (WA); 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 high-density ARM64 compute platforms and hypervisor layers across ACC, building production-grade software across architectures within Cloud Compute.

You will lead hardware enablement, multi-arch deployments, and collaborate with global teams while mentoring engineers. This role emphasizes strong technical leadership and delivery in a fast-paced cloud environment.

Qualifications

• 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent.
• Experience mentoring reports and leading teams.
• Deep familiarity with ARM64/AArch64 and x86_64 server platforms.
• Experience with cross-compilation toolchains, system profiling, and multi-architecture software deployment.
• Experience with cloud compute virtualization technologies (KVM, QEMU), container runtimes, Linux system APIs, or hypervisor integration.
• Experience in technical design, product specification reviews, projects and backlog planning.
• Ability to work productively to identify and resolve issues in a collaborative, transparent manner.

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 close collaboration with your team.
• Leading technical strategy for hardware enablement, cross-platform build pipelines, and workload performance optimization.
• Working closely with peers and coordinating with global teams to build new compute features or resolve low-level software bugs.
• Providing organizational and functional leadership to a team of engineers.

Skills

ARM64 / AArch64

x86_64 servers

Cross-compilation toolchains

System profiling

Multi-architecture deployment

KVM / QEMU virtualization

Container runtimes

Linux system APIs

Hypervisor integration

Technical design & backlog planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

KVM

QEMU

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Software Engineer Lead to design and scale high-density ARM64 compute platforms and hypervisor layers across ACC, building production-grade software across architectures within Cloud Compute.

You will lead hardware enablement, multi-arch deployments, and collaborate with global teams while mentoring engineers. This role emphasizes strong technical leadership and delivery in a fast-paced cloud environment.