Senior Cloud Compute Engineer - ARM64 & x86 Backend

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Dover (DE); Remote; USD 121,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

FlexBase program

Healthcare

401K savings plan

Paid time off (vacation & sick)

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement backend compute services and APIs for ARM64 and x86_64 instance management.

You will expand platform functionality, work with KVM/QEMU, and collaborate across teams to optimize performance and reliability. You should have 5+ years of experience and a degree in CS, with strong skills in Python, Go, C/C++, or Rust, plus web APIs and distributed Linux systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience and a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or its equivalent.
• Experience with the full software development life cycle including code reviews, release management and support.
• Proficiency developing software 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.
• 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

KVM

QEMU

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

KVM

QEMU

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement backend compute services and APIs for ARM64 and x86_64 instance management.

You will expand platform functionality, work with KVM/QEMU, and collaborate across teams to optimize performance and reliability. You should have 5+ years of experience and a degree in CS, with strong skills in Python, Go, C/C++, or Rust, plus web APIs and distributed Linux systems.