Senior AI Inference Platform Lead (Edge/Cloud)

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

Benefits offered by this job

FlexBase program

Hybrid work flexibility

Competitive compensation package with

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior II Software Engineer Lead to drive the design and implementation of our AI inference platform, delivering OpenAI-compatible endpoints and orchestrating workloads across regions. You will mentor engineers, influence technical direction, and ensure scalable, reliable systems.

You will lead critical components, guide tool choices for AI inference workloads, and collaborate to define platform standards while advancing operational excellence across teams.

Qualifications

• 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
• Demonstrate hands-on experience with AI inference, model serving, or LLM deployment with working knowledge of inference frameworks (TensorRT, vLLM, TorchServe, Triton)
• Show expertise in containerization and orchestration technologies including Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native architectures
• Have proven experience building scalable, high-performance systems with modern DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code
• Demonstrate solid technical leadership through mentoring, code quality advocacy, and ability to drive technical solutions for complex problems
• Show familiarity with API design and development(REST/gRPC patterns), GPU infrastructure and hardware acceleration
• Have 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

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

TensorRT

TorchServe

Triton

vLLM

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior II Software Engineer Lead to drive the design and implementation of our AI inference platform, delivering OpenAI-compatible endpoints and orchestrating workloads across regions. You will mentor engineers, influence technical direction, and ensure scalable, reliable systems.

You will lead critical components, guide tool choices for AI inference workloads, and collaborate to define platform standards while advancing operational excellence across teams.