Principal Kubernetes & Cloud-Native Engineer

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 169,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Software Engineer with deep expertise in Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures to lead the evolution of our managed services and IaaS platform.

You will provide cross-team architectural oversight, mentor engineers, and partner with product and infrastructure teams to scale, secure, and simplify our cloud-native offerings for customers.

Qualifications

• Have 8+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Demonstrate experience building and scaling managed services and Kubernetes-based platforms
• Possess expert knowledge of container runtimes (e.g., docker, containers) and orchestrators.
• Showcase mastery in Go, Python, or Bash.
• Be a champion for sustaining an exceptional work environment and advocating for diverse opinions in technical debates.

Responsibilities

• Provide cross-team architectural oversight and strategic guidance to ensure cloud-native efforts are cohesively implemented across all product development teams.
• Act as a unifying technical authority for cloud-native initiatives, ensuring architectural alignment, standardization, and technical excellence organization-wide.
• Partner with cross-functional leadership to integrate diverse cloud-native technologies, bridging gaps between individual product teams and core platform infrastructure.
• Facilitating a unified technical strategy that empowers teams to deploy and operate cloud-native services efficiently, rather than focusing on a single product silo.
• Mentoring engineering teams across the organization, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and shared technical standards.

Skills

8+ years experience

Kubernetes platforms

Container runtimes

Go/Python/Bash

Diversity advocacy

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Go

Python

Bash

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Software Engineer with deep expertise in Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures to lead the evolution of our managed services and IaaS platform.

You will provide cross-team architectural oversight, mentor engineers, and partner with product and infrastructure teams to scale, secure, and simplify our cloud-native offerings for customers.