Principal Software Engineer Lead - Compute Control Plane - Remote
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 24, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 25, 2026. Akamai scores A on the Alion truth index.
Principal Software Engineer Lead - Compute Control Plane - Remote
Would revolutionizing the cloud computing space excite you?
Are you passionate about pushing the limits of scale for cloud-native technologies?
Join our Compute Team!
Akamai’s Cloud Technology Group Compute division, formerly Linode and now Akamai Cloud, is made up of collaborative, inclusive, and creative teams. We develop applications and services to empower our customers. Our mission is to accelerate innovation by making cloud computing simple, scalable, affordable, and accessible to all. We design, develop, test, and maintain products that run on our IaaS platform.
Shape the future of our Akamai Cloud!
With your expertise in Kubernetes and Cloud-Native technologies, you will provide technical and architectural leadership to design, build, and scale our Next Generation Control Plane. You will lead the transformation toward a highly available, resilient, and distributed microservices architecture designed to support massive-scale operations seamlessly.
As a Principal Software Engineer Lead, you will be responsible for:
- Leading the development of the cloud native control plane built on Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies
- Contributing to and helping shape the engineering roadmap by working with management and business stakeholders
- Contributing to enterprise features expected from a cloud native platform
- Developing best practices, knowledge sharing, and mentoring
- Lead and collaborate with engineering teams in an Agile environment
- Foster an environment that encourages innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication
Do what you love
To be successful in this role, you will:
- Have 10+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Thought leadership in Cloud Native Platform Engineering, driving toward an enabled ecosystem of capabilities within our organization
- Have experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable production services using Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies
- Be an expert in containers as well as the technologies that revolve around them.
- Demonstrate expert knowledge of the Go programming language and be comfortable leveraging Python or Bash for scripting needs
- Express expertise in networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP) and knowledge of Linux-based operating systems
- Have expertise leveraging CI/CD tools to achieve good software development practices
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
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