Senior Compute Virtualization Architect — Hybrid/Remote

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 169,000 - 305,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Architect for our Cloud Technology Group to lead OS, hypervisor, VM, and container architecture within our Compute Platform.

You will act as a hands-on architect embedded with engineering teams, shaping design and technology choices across the IaaS and Kubernetes-based services. You will own system design, guide engineering, and influence the product roadmap, while mentoring peers and driving best practices in an Agile context.

Qualifications

• 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
• Extensive experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant distributed production services using Virtualization and Cloud-Native techs.
• Advanced knowledge of operating systems, Linux internals, virtualization technologies, hypervisors, performance optimization.
• Experience and solid understanding of containers and related tech (systemd, Docker, containerd, Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Own the system design and implementation, guiding engineering toward the big picture.
• Build proof-of-concepts to inform design choices and technologies.
• Work with product managers and architects to shape direction.
• Contribute to and help shape the engineering roadmap with stakeholders.
• Develop best practices, share knowledge, and mentor teammates.
• Collaborate with engineering teams in an Agile environment to deliver innovative solutions.

Skills

Operating Systems

Hypervisors

Virtual Machines

Containers

Go

Python

Bash

Kubernetes

Cloud-Native

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

qemu

kvm

Cilium

Docker

containerd

Kubernetes

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Architect for our Cloud Technology Group to lead OS, hypervisor, VM, and container architecture within our Compute Platform.

You will act as a hands-on architect embedded with engineering teams, shaping design and technology choices across the IaaS and Kubernetes-based services. You will own system design, guide engineering, and influence the product roadmap, while mentoring peers and driving best practices in an Agile context.