Senior II Software Engineer Lead - Akamai Inference Cloud - Remote/Poland

Akamai Technologies
Krakow
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Problem-solving"]

Lead the design and development of foundational features for Akamai’s global AI inference platform. Drive architecture decisions across CDN, APIs, Kubernetes orchestration, and observability. Bring deep expertise in distributed, cloud-native systems and API infrastructure, while mentoring teammates. This remote-friendly role supports scalable, secure services within Akamai’s Inference Cloud, with collaboration across global teams and opportunities to influence platform capabilities.

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Senior II Software Engineer Lead - Akamai Inference Cloud - Remote/Poland

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Job Summary

Lead the design and development of foundational features for Akamai’s global AI inference platform. Drive architecture decisions across CDN, APIs, Kubernetes orchestration, and observability. Bring deep expertise in distributed, cloud-native systems and API infrastructure, while mentoring teammates. This remote-friendly role supports scalable, secure services within Akamai’s Inference Cloud, with collaboration across global teams and opportunities to influence platform capabilities.
Location: Krakow
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Leading the design and implementation of critical platform components for Akamai Inference Cloud, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability.
  • •Driving technical decisions for your domain, selecting appropriate tools, frameworks, and architectural approaches for secure, scalable, and high-performance inference platform services.
  • •Leading the evolution of platform capabilities including authentication, load balancing, rate limiting, firewall integration, and externally facing API patterns.
  • •Designing and improving data plane APIs, including OpenAI-compatible interfaces and other standards required to support diverse inference and AI application workloads.
  • •Defining and advancing platform observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, and operational diagnostics for distributed systems at scale.

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of software engineering experience, with deep proficiency in distributed systems, cloud services, and platform engineering.
  • •Experience building and operating internet-facing platform services such as API gateways, ingress layers, reverse proxies, or service infrastructure.
  • •Advanced expertise in cloud-native architectures, containerization, and orchestration with Kubernetes.
  • •Proven track record of building scalable, high-performance systems with modern DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.
  • •Experience designing and operating API platforms, including authentication, authorization, traffic management, and service protection patterns.
Experience:AIInference platformCloud-nativeDistributed systems
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipProblem-solving
Tech Stack:KubernetesAPI infrastructureOpenAI-compatible interfacesAPI gatewaysCI/CDInfrastructure-as-codeCloud services

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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