Senior Cloud Compute Engineer (ARM64/x86)

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Salem (OR); On-site; USD 121,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401K

Equity and ESPP

FlexBase program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, a leading cloud and edge platform, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join our Compute team. You will design and implement backend compute services and APIs for ARM64 and x86_64 instance management.

Work with QEMU, Linux systems, and hardware teams to improve virtualization, resource orchestration, and service reliability across multi-architecture environments, delivering scalable compute for the Akamai Connected Cloud.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or its equivalent.
• Experience with full software development lifecycle including code reviews, release management and support.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, C/C++, or Rust.
• Experience with cloud compute virtualization technologies (KVM, QEMU), container runtimes, Linux system APIs, or hypervisor integration.
• Experience with web application development, microservices, RESTful APIs, and database design patterns.
• Strong debugging, profiling, and troubleshooting skills across distributed Linux systems and databases.

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

Linux

Job description

Akamai Technologies, a leading cloud and edge platform, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join our Compute team. You will design and implement backend compute services and APIs for ARM64 and x86_64 instance management.

Work with QEMU, Linux systems, and hardware teams to improve virtualization, resource orchestration, and service reliability across multi-architecture environments, delivering scalable compute for the Akamai Connected Cloud.