Senior AI Platform Lead Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

FlexBase program

Hybrid/Remote-friendly

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior II Software Engineer Lead to drive the design and deployment of our AI inference platform. You will shepherd open AI-compatible endpoints, orchestrating workloads across regions while guiding engineers and shaping technical direction for scalable systems.

You will mentor teammates, optimize containerized workloads, and collaborate across teams on platform standards and operational excellence, with a focus on performance and reliability.

Qualifications

• 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
• Distributed systems, cloud services, and platform engineering proficiency.
• Hands-on experience with AI inference, model serving, or LLM deployment with working knowledge of inference frameworks (TensorRT, vLLM, TorchServe, Triton).
• Containerization and orchestration technologies including Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native architectures.
• 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.
• 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

Kubernetes

Docker

API design

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

TensorRT

vLLM

TorchServe

Triton

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior II Software Engineer Lead to drive the design and deployment of our AI inference platform. You will shepherd open AI-compatible endpoints, orchestrating workloads across regions while guiding engineers and shaping technical direction for scalable systems.

You will mentor teammates, optimize containerized workloads, and collaborate across teams on platform standards and operational excellence, with a focus on performance and reliability.