Architect

Akamai Technologies
Cambridge
Full timeUSD 178,547 - 263,600 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Stakeholder alignment","Collaboration","System design guidance","Architectural decision-making"]

Design and implement scalable solutions to integrate Noname Security into the Akamai ecosystem, ensuring high availability, security, and strong performance. Lead system-wide architectural changes across multiple R&D teams to improve scalability, reliability, and deployment efficiency. Oversee critical integration components that connect posture management and API security with Akamai infrastructure. Provide guidance on design patterns, align stakeholders on platform strategy, and define engineering guidelines and best practices.

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Akamai Technologies
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Architect

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Job Summary

Design and implement scalable solutions to integrate Noname Security into the Akamai ecosystem, ensuring high availability, security, and strong performance. Lead system-wide architectural changes across multiple R&D teams to improve scalability, reliability, and deployment efficiency. Oversee critical integration components that connect posture management and API security with Akamai infrastructure. Provide guidance on design patterns, align stakeholders on platform strategy, and define engineering guidelines and best practices.
Location: Cambridge
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and implement scalable solutions to integrate Noname Security’s product into the Akamai ecosystem.
  • •Lead system-wide architectural changes to improve scalability, reliability, and deployment efficiency.
  • •Oversee the design and development of critical integration components for posture management and API security interoperability.
  • •Support architectural decision-making by providing guidance on design patterns and aligning stakeholders on long-term platform strategies.
  • •Define development guidelines and best practices to enable consistent, efficient engineering across teams.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 178,547 - 263,600 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health Insurance401kPaid LeaveSick TimeParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science/Software Engineering/related fields plus five (5) years of experience in the job offered or a closely related engineering role, or no degree with eight (8) years of experience.
  • •Experience analyzing security vulnerabilities from cloud & infrastructure misconfigurations.
  • •Experience automating systems for detecting infrastructure misconfigurations and building tenant provisioning systems.
  • •Experience with distributed backend services, data migration-safe systems, and distributed event-driven architecture.
  • •Experience optimizing large-scale PostgreSQL databases and using Python (including Flask), TypeScript, REST APIs, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, and elastic load balancing.
Experience:5+ yearsCloud securityDistributed systemsAPI securityBackend engineering
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or Telecommunications Engineering
Skills:Stakeholder alignmentCollaborationSystem design guidanceArchitectural decision-making
Tech Stack:PythonFlaskTypeScriptREST APIsKubernetesAWSAzurePostgreSQLElastic load balancingAPI securityCloudDistributed event-driven architecture

Company Brief

Akamai Technologies
Provides a global content delivery network (CDN) and cloud services to improve web and application performance, security, and delivery for enterprises, media companies, and cloud providers.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Cambridge, United States
Founded: 1998
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