[Akamai] Software Engineer - Akamai Inference Cloud

The Akamai Inference Cloud team is part of Akamai's Cloud Technology Group. They build AI platforms for efficient, compliant, and high-performing applications, supporting customers running inference models and empowering developers to create advanced AI solutions.

• 2+ years of software engineering experience in backend systems, cloud services, or platform engineering.
• Proficiency in building and debugging distributed or service-oriented applications.
• Familiarity with cloud-native technologies such as containers and Kubernetes.
• Experience developing APIs or backend services with focus on reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Understanding of operational practices including testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with observability concepts such as metrics, logs, and tracing in production systems.
• Interest in internet-facing platform services like ingress, authentication, load balancing, or API infrastructure.
• Curiosity about AI inference platforms, model serving systems, or infrastructure supporting LLM and inference workloads.

• Implementing and maintaining platform components for Akamai Inference Cloud focusing on scalability, reliability, and operability.
• Contributing to services across ingress, gateway, and data plane layers under guidance.
• Supporting development of platform capabilities such as authentication, traffic handling, and API service functionality.
• Building and improving data plane APIs aligned with OpenAI-compatible patterns and other standards.
• Writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code for cloud-native services in containerized environments.
• Assisting with observability by contributing metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and operational diagnostics.
• Supporting Kubernetes-based deployment and orchestration of platform services in production.
• Collaborating in code reviews, design discussions, testing, and incident support to improve platform quality and operational excellence.