Senior Cloud Compute Engineer – ARM/x86 Platform

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Little Rock (AR); On-site; USD 121,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401K plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

FlexBase program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies is seeking engineers to help design and implement the next generation of cloud compute within the Akamai Connected Cloud. Join our Compute team to work on core compute platform infrastructure, ARM64 and x86_64 orchestration, and low-level services.

We foster rapid development cycles, open communication, and innovative engineering solutions to build high-density compute systems. This role focuses on scalable, secure, and reliable compute platforms across multi-architecture

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

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

KVM

QEMU

Container runtimes

Linux APIs

Hypervisor integration

Job description

Akamai Technologies is seeking engineers to help design and implement the next generation of cloud compute within the Akamai Connected Cloud. Join our Compute team to work on core compute platform infrastructure, ARM64 and x86_64 orchestration, and low-level services.

We foster rapid development cycles, open communication, and innovative engineering solutions to build high-density compute systems. This role focuses on scalable, secure, and reliable compute platforms across multi-architecture