Principal Software Engineer Lead (Kubernetes Product Platform) at Akamai Technologies in United States
- Company: Akamai Technologies
- Location: United States
- Posted: Sep 24, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Salary: $169,300 - $304,700/year
- Experience: 12+ years
Overview
Are you passionate about pushing the limits of scale for cloud-native technologies? Join our Compute Team! With your expertise in Kubernetes and Cloud-Native technologies, you will help design, build, and scale the Kubernetes Product Platform. This opinionated internal Kubernetes platform meets Akam…
Job description
- Are you passionate about pushing the limits of scale for cloud-native technologies?
- Join our Compute Team!
- With your expertise in Kubernetes and Cloud-Native technologies, you will help design, build, and scale the Kubernetes Product Platform. This opinionated internal Kubernetes platform meets Akamai's change safety, security, and compliance expectations while giving developers the experience they want. This platform will help bring new products and services to market faster by simplifying performance, reliability, security, and operational needs.
- Do what you love
Responsibilities
- As a Principal Software Engineer Lead, you will be responsible for:
- Leading the development of the cloud native platform built on Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies
- Contributing to and helping shape the engineering roadmap by working with management and business stakeholders
- Contributing to enterprise features expected from a cloud native platform
- Developing best practices, knowledge sharing, and mentoring
- Leading and collaborating with engineering teams in an Agile environment
- Fostering an environment that encourages innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication
Requirements
- Have 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent.
- Possess leadership experience in Cloud Native Platform Engineering, driving toward an enabled ecosystem of capabilities within our organization.
- Have experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable production services using Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies.
- Demonstrate expert knowledge of the Go programming language and be comfortable leveraging Python or Bash for scripting needs.
- Express expertise in networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP) and knowledge of Linux-based operating systems.
- Have expertise leveraging CI/CD tools to achieve good software development practices.
Skills
Required
- Leadership
- Mentoring
- Collaboration
- Open communication
- Innovative thinking
- Kubernetes
- Cloud-native technologies
- Go
- Python
- Bash
- CI/CD
- TCP/IP
Benefits
- Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
- FlexBase adapts to your job's needs
- 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.
- We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
- Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like!
- Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $169,300 - $304,700/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.
About Akamai Technologies
Akamai's Cloud Technology Group Compute division formerly Linode, now Akamai Cloudis made up of collaborative, inclusive, and creative teams. We develop applications and services to empower our customers. Our mission is to accelerate innovation by making cloud computing simple, scalable, affordable, and accessible to all. We design, develop, test, and maintain products that run on our IaaS platform. Partner with the best At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day. 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. Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance. Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data. Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch. AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform. 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.