Lead Cloud Platform Architect

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Montpelier (VT); On-site; USD 200,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a seasoned Principal Architect to lead the evolution of our cloud platform and delivery stack. You will design architectures for large-scale distributed systems, drive cross-team initiatives and ensure security, reliability and scalability across global services.

Join a CTO-led group building the future cloud platform, collaborating with engineering, product and external partners while mentoring teams and shaping long-term technical strategy.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience designing architectures for large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience documenting architectures for distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of high-availability software, security, operability goals.
• Understanding of Internet protocols (routing, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP) and security (TLS, PKI, VPN).
• Expertise in cloud workload management and control plane paradigms.
• Experience with SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and public cloud offerings.

Responsibilities

• Identify critical improvements for inclusion in the cloud platform roadmap.
• Collaborate with solution architects across engineering to unify cloud platform vision.
• Socialize and build consensus around long-term technical strategy across product lines and teams.
• Engage external partners and stakeholders to achieve platform evolution goals.
• Work with engineering to ensure cloud platform architecture aligns with other product goals.
• Provide leadership through guidance and hands-on design as needed to execute the roadmap.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

Security & reliability

Networking protocols

Cloud offerings

Architecture leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a seasoned Principal Architect to lead the evolution of our cloud platform and delivery stack. You will design architectures for large-scale distributed systems, drive cross-team initiatives and ensure security, reliability and scalability across global services.

Join a CTO-led group building the future cloud platform, collaborating with engineering, product and external partners while mentoring teams and shaping long-term technical strategy.