Platform Engineer

Akamai is a global company powering and protecting online digital experiences with a distributed compute platform from cloud to edge, serving leading companies worldwide.

• Relevant experience in software engineering.
• Proficiency in at least one systems programming language such as Go, Python, or Java.
• Experience building and consuming RESTful or gRPC APIs in distributed systems.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or Akamai Cloud.
• Knowledge of containerization and basic Kubernetes concepts.
• Understanding of authentication and authorization patterns like OAuth, RBAC, or multi-tenant isolation.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control, and modern software development practices.
• Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to learn in a dynamic engineering environment.

• Develop and maintain data plane APIs enabling communication between platform components and inference services.
• Implement authentication, authorization, and multi-tenant security controls to ensure isolation and compliance.
• Contribute to design and development of reliable, scalable, and maintainable platform services.
• Write well-tested, well-documented code and participate in code reviews.
• Support operational readiness through monitoring, alerting, and incident response for built platform services.