Senior Cloud Compute Engineer - ARM64 & x86

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Madison (WI); Hybrid; USD 121,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401K savings plan

Paid time off (PTO)

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Parental leave

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and develop backend compute services and APIs for ARM64 and x86_64 instance management. You will work with QEMU, Linux systems, and hardware teams to drive native compute across Akamai Connected Cloud.

You will contribute to platform performance, scalability, and reliability while collaborating with cross-functional teams on virtualization and low-level systems challenges.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or its equivalent.

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

Linux

RESTful APIs

Debugging distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

QEMU

KVM

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and develop backend compute services and APIs for ARM64 and x86_64 instance management. You will work with QEMU, Linux systems, and hardware teams to drive native compute across Akamai Connected Cloud.

You will contribute to platform performance, scalability, and reliability while collaborating with cross-functional teams on virtualization and low-level systems challenges.