Senior Cloud Platform Architect — Hybrid/Remote

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 200,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K savings plan

Company holidays

Vacation (PTO)

Sick time

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Join Akamai's Cloud Technology Group as a Principal Architect to lead the evolution of our global cloud platform. You will drive architecture decisions, guide cross-functional teams, and partner with stakeholders to ensure security, reliability, and scalable performance for our cloud and edge services.

You will design foundational solutions for Akamai's next-generation cloud offerings, mentor engineers, and translate business needs into robust technical roadmaps across multiple product lines.

Qualifications

• 12 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
• Extensive experience developing and documenting architectures for large-scale distributed systems.
• Solid experience with high availability software systems and methods for security, reliability and operability objectives.
• Working knowledge of Internet protocols (routing, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP) and computer security (TLS, PKI, VPN).
• Expertise in cloud workload management (containers, VMs) and control plane paradigms (push, pull, segmentation, reconciliation).
• Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS with experience in one or more public cloud offerings.
• Experience modernizing and refactoring system designs for enterprise-grade scalability, reliability, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Identifying critical improvements for inclusion in the cloud platform roadmap.
• Collaborating with solution-specific architects across engineering to define architectures that lead toward a unified cloud platform vision.
• Socializing and building consensus around long-term technical strategy decisions across product lines and teams to advance our cloud platform vision.
• Engaging with both external partners and stakeholders across the company to achieve our platform evolution goals.
• Working with counterparts in engineering to ensure that our cloud platform architecture aligns well with other product goals.
• Providing leadership through both high-level guidance and hands-on design as needed to execute against our cloud platform roadmap.

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Join Akamai's Cloud Technology Group as a Principal Architect to lead the evolution of our global cloud platform. You will drive architecture decisions, guide cross-functional teams, and partner with stakeholders to ensure security, reliability, and scalable performance for our cloud and edge services.

You will design foundational solutions for Akamai's next-generation cloud offerings, mentor engineers, and translate business needs into robust technical roadmaps across multiple product lines.