Senior ARM Cloud Compute Engineer

Akamai Career Site; United States; On-site; USD 121,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401k matching

Paid time off

Sick time

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Akamai's Compute team is designing and implementing the next generation of cloud computing. We accelerate AI workloads with ARM64 and x86 platforms, focusing on high-density, scalable infrastructure and robust APIs.

You will join a collaborative environment that values rapid iteration and performance. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build backend compute services in Python, Go, or C/C++, optimize virtualization and orchestration, and work with cross-functional teams to solve hard latency

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or its equivalent.
• Demonstrate extensive experience with the full software development life cycle including code reviews, release management and support.
• Show proficiency developing software in Python, Go, C/C++, or Rust.
• Have experience with cloud compute virtualization technologies (KVM, QEMU), container runtimes, Linux system APIs, or hypervisor integration.
• Possess experience with web application development, microservices, micro-orchestration, RESTful APIs, and database design patterns.
• Have excellent debugging, profiling, and troubleshooting skills across distributed Linux systems and database layers.

Responsibilities

• Designing and developing backend compute services and APIs for ARM64 and x86_64 instance management using Python, Go, or compiled systems languages.
• Expanding underlying platform functionality, resource orchestration tools, and APIs for cloud compute provisioning.
• Contributing to enhanced production support and effective resolution of complex issues impacting low-level compute systems
• Partnering with cross-functional teams to integrate ARM server hardware and solve technical performance bottlenecks.
• Improving compute platform performance, feature sets, multi-core scalability, and service reliability.

Skills

Python

Go

C/C++

Rust

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Debugging

Troubleshooting

Linux systems

Database design

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

KVM

QEMU

Container runtimes

Linux system APIs

Hypervisor integration

Job description

Akamai's Compute team is designing and implementing the next generation of cloud computing. We accelerate AI workloads with ARM64 and x86 platforms, focusing on high-density, scalable infrastructure and robust APIs.

You will join a collaborative environment that values rapid iteration and performance. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build backend compute services in Python, Go, or C/C++, optimize virtualization and orchestration, and work with cross-functional teams to solve hard latency