Senior AI Inference Platform Lead

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Montpelier (VT); On-site; USD 146,000 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior II Software Engineer Lead to drive the design and implementation of critical components of the Akamai Inference Cloud platform.

You will guide engineers, influence technical direction, and ensure high-quality, scalable AI infrastructure with OpenAI-compatible endpoints across regions. You will mentor teammates, make decisions on AI inference workloads, and optimize containerized workloads with hardware-specific improvements, collaborating with

Qualifications

• 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
• Solid proficiency in distributed systems, cloud services, and platform engineering.
• Hands-on experience with AI inference, model serving, or LLM deployment with working knowledge of inference frameworks (TensorRT, vLLM, TorchServe, Triton).
• Expertise in containerization and orchestration technologies including Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native architectures.
• Proven experience building scalable, high-performance systems with modern DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Solid technical leadership through mentoring, code quality advocacy, and ability to drive technical solutions for complex problems.
• Familiarity with API design and development (REST/gRPC patterns), GPU infrastructure and hardware acceleration.
• Knowledge of observability, monitoring, and debugging distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Leading the design and implementation of critical platform components for Akamai Inference Cloud, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Driving technical decisions for your domain, selecting appropriate tools, frameworks, and approaches for AI inference workloads.
• Mentoring and guiding engineers on the team through code reviews, design discussions, and technical problem-solving.
• Implementing and optimizing containerized AI workloads with hardware-specific optimizations and integrating inference frameworks at scale.
• Collaborating across teams to define technical requirements, contribute to platform standards, and ensure operational excellence.

Skills

Distributed Systems

Cloud Services

Platform Engineering

AI Inference

Model Serving

LLM Deployment

API Design

Observability

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

TensorRT

vLLM

TorchServe

Triton

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior II Software Engineer Lead to drive the design and implementation of critical components of the Akamai Inference Cloud platform.

You will guide engineers, influence technical direction, and ensure high-quality, scalable AI infrastructure with OpenAI-compatible endpoints across regions. You will mentor teammates, make decisions on AI inference workloads, and optimize containerized workloads with hardware-specific improvements, collaborating with