Visionary Principal Cloud Platform Architect

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K savings plan

Paid time off (PTO)

Sick time

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies seeks a Principal Architect to drive the evolution of our cloud platform and design foundational solutions powering Akamai's cloud products. You will lead initiatives across multiple engineering teams and define architectures that align with a unified platform vision.

As a Principal Architect on the CTO's team, you will socialize long‑term technical strategy, engage with partners, and ensure architecture aligns with business goals.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience developing and documenting architectures for large-scale distributed systems.
• High availability software systems and methods for achieving service security, reliability and operability.
• Knowledge of Internet protocols (routing, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP) and computer security (TLS, PKI, VPN).
• Expertise in cloud workload management and control plane paradigms.
• Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS with experience in one or more public cloud offerings.

Responsibilities

• Identify critical improvements for inclusion in the cloud platform roadmap.
• Collaborate with solution architects across engineering to define architectures toward a unified cloud platform vision.
• Socialize long-term technical strategy decisions across product lines and teams.
• Engage with external partners and stakeholders to achieve platform evolution goals.
• Work with engineering to ensure alignment with product goals for the cloud platform.
• Provide leadership through high-level guidance and hands‑on design to execute the roadmap.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

High availability

Security & reliability

Internet protocols

Cloud workload management

Public cloud offerings

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Akamai Technologies seeks a Principal Architect to drive the evolution of our cloud platform and design foundational solutions powering Akamai's cloud products. You will lead initiatives across multiple engineering teams and define architectures that align with a unified platform vision.

As a Principal Architect on the CTO's team, you will socialize long‑term technical strategy, engage with partners, and ensure architecture aligns with business goals.