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We design, develop, test, and maintain products that run our IaaS platform.</p><p><b>Partner with the best</b></p><p>We are looking for a Principal Architect with expertise in Operating Systems, Hypervisors, Virtual Machines, and Containers, with good Cloud-Native tendencies, to lead the architecture and design of next-generation infrastructure services. In this role, you will be working embedded as part of engineering development teams, engaging as a core member of the Compute system architecture team.</p><p>As a Principal,Architect, you will be responsible for:</p><ul><li class=\"lst\">Owning the system design and implementation, helping to guide engineering while ensuring alignment with the big picture.</li><li class=\"lst\">Working with product managers and product architects to help inform the product direction.</li><li class=\"lst\">Contributing to and helping to shape the engineering roadmap by working with product and engineering management and other business stakeholders.</li><li class=\"lst\">Developing best practices, sharing knowledge, and mentoring.</li><li class=\"lst\">Collaborating with engineering teams in an Agile environment that fosters innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication.</li></ul><p><b>Do what you love</b></p><p>To be successful in this role you will:</p><ul><li class=\"lst\">Have 15 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.</li><li class=\"lst\">Demonstrate extensive experience building large-scale fault-tolerant, production services using Virtualization and Cloud-Native technologies (e.g. qemu, kvm, Kubernetes, Cilium, etc.)</li><li class=\"lst\">Have advanced knowledge of Kubernetes concepts such as Operator/Controller patterns, custom resources, etc.</li><li class=\"lst\">Have experience and good understanding of operating systems, containers and the technologies that revolve around them (e.g., systemd, docker, containerd, ArgoCD, etc.)</li><li class=\"lst\">Demonstrate significant experience with Linux, Go, Python, Bash.</li><li class=\"lst\">Have a good understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS with experience in one or more public cloud offerings</li></ul><p><b>About us</b></p><p>At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.<br />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.<br /><br />Our focus is simple:<br />  <b>Cloud and Edge:</b> Running apps closer to users for instant performance.<br />  <b>Security</b>: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.<br />  <b>Content Delivery</b>: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.<br />  <b>AI</b>: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.<br /><br />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.</p><p><b>Benefits at Akamai:</b> We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. <a href=\"https://www.akamai.com/careers/working-at-akamai?utm_source=akamai&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=benefits\" target=\"_blank\">See our benefits.</a></p><p><b>FlexBase adapts to your job's needs</b></p><p>Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.<br /><br />We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.</p><p><table style=\"width:98%\"><tr><td>Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like!</td><td> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/Akamai?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://app.role-mapper.com/images/twitter.png\" /></a> <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/akamaicareers/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://app.role-mapper.com/images/facebook.png\" /></a> <a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/company/akamai-technologies/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://app.role-mapper.com/images/linkedin.png\" /></a> <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/akamaicareers/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://app.role-mapper.com/images/instagram.png\" /></a> <a href=\"https://www.akamai.com/blog?\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://app.role-mapper.com/images/blog.png\" /></a> <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYo5nh8xQFpnnPl17sQRURR9ugKL-KMRO\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https://assets.role-mapper.com/images/youtube_new.png\" /></a></td></tr></table></p><p><b>Compensation</b></p>\n<p>Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. 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