Lead Cloud Compute Engineer (ARM64/x86)

Akamai; United States; On-site; USD 169,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

FlexBase program

Job summary

Akamai’s Cloud Compute team is hiring a Principal Software Engineer Lead to design and scale ARM64 compute platform functionality and hypervisor layers across ACC. You will architect, implement, review, and test production-quality software across architectures, coordinating with global teams and leading engineers.

You will partner with cloud compute virtualization technologies (KVM, QEMU), container runtimes, and Linux APIs to drive hardware enablement, cross-platform pipelines, and workload

Qualifications

• 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent.
• Track record of helping reports excel and grow in responsibility.
• 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 and collaboratively to identify and resolve issues.

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.
• Coordinating with peers and 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

x86_64

Leadership

Cross-arch development

Performance optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

KVM

QEMU

Linux APIs

Hypervisor integration

Job description

Akamai’s Cloud Compute team is hiring a Principal Software Engineer Lead to design and scale ARM64 compute platform functionality and hypervisor layers across ACC. You will architect, implement, review, and test production-quality software across architectures, coordinating with global teams and leading engineers.

You will partner with cloud compute virtualization technologies (KVM, QEMU), container runtimes, and Linux APIs to drive hardware enablement, cross-platform pipelines, and workload