Principal Cloud Platform Architect — Flexible/Remote

Akamai Career Site; United States; On-site; USD 200,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K

Vacation

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group (CTG) is seeking a Principal Architect to design, build, and operate our global cloud and edge platform. You will drive architecture decisions across engineering teams to enable scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure.

You will lead cross-team initiatives, socialize long-term technical strategy, and mentor others while hands-on design when needed. Preferred: 12+ years of experience and a Bachelor's degree; US-based candidates with base salary

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Identify critical improvements for the cloud platform roadmap.
• Collaborate with architects to define architectures toward a unified cloud platform vision.
• Socialize long-term technical strategy decisions across product lines and teams.
• Engage with external partners and stakeholders to achieve platform evolution goals.
• Ensure cloud platform architecture aligns with other product goals.
• Provide leadership through high-level guidance and hands-on design as needed.

Skills

Distributed architectures

HA systems

Cloud workloads

Public cloud experience

Security & observability

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group (CTG) is seeking a Principal Architect to design, build, and operate our global cloud and edge platform. You will drive architecture decisions across engineering teams to enable scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure.

You will lead cross-team initiatives, socialize long-term technical strategy, and mentor others while hands-on design when needed. Preferred: 12+ years of experience and a Bachelor's degree; US-based candidates with base salary