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Akamai Technologies

Principal Software Engineer Lead – Compute Control Plane

Akamai Technologies

. Lead development of the cloud-native control plane built on Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies .

Posted 9/25/2026full-timeRemote • Czechia, Poland, SpainSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudDNSKubernetesLinuxMicroservicesPythonTCP/IPGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead development of the cloud-native control plane built on Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies
  • Provide technical and architectural leadership for designing, building, and scaling the next-generation control plane
  • Lead transformation toward a highly available, resilient, distributed microservices architecture
  • Shape the engineering roadmap with management and business stakeholders
  • Contribute to enterprise features for a cloud-native platform
  • Develop best practices, share knowledge, and mentor others
  • Lead and collaborate with engineering teams in an Agile environment
  • Foster innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 10+ years of relevant experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • Thought leadership in Cloud Native Platform Engineering
  • Experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable production services using Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies
  • Expert knowledge of containers and related technologies
  • Expert knowledge of Go
  • Comfort leveraging Python or Bash for scripting
  • Expertise in networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, and HTTP
  • Knowledge of Linux-based operating systems
  • Expertise leveraging CI/CD tools
  • Ability to lead and collaborate with engineering teams in an Agile environment

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Health, well-being, financial, and life benefits
  • Flexible work arrangements through Akamai's FlexBase program: work at home, in an office, or a combination of both