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Senior II Software Engineer Lead - Akamai Inference Cloud - Remote/Poland
About this role
Do you thrive on technical leadership and building cutting-edge AI systems? Are you ready to shape the platform foundations that power AI inference at global scale? Join the Akamai Inference Cloud Team! The Akamai Inference Cloud team is part of Akamai's Cloud Technology Group. We build AI platforms for efficient, compliant, and high-performing applications. These platforms support customers in running inference models and empower developers to create advanced AI solutions effectively.
#AIC Partner with the best The Senior II Platform Engineer Lead designs and develops foundational features for a global AI inference platform. Responsibilities include CDN, APIs, Kubernetes orchestration, observability, and deployment models. Expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and API infrastructure is required to ensure secure, scalable, and reliable solutions. The role also emphasizes collaboration and mentoring within the team environment.
As a Senior II Platform Engineer Lead, you will be responsible for: Leading the design and implementation of critical platform components for Akamai Inference Cloud, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability. Driving technical decisions for your domain, selecting appropriate tools, frameworks, and architectural approaches for secure, scalable, and high-performance inference platform services. Leading the evolution of platform capabilities including authentication, load balancing, rate limiting, firewall integration, and externally facing API patterns.
Designing and improving data plane APIs, including OpenAI-compatible interfaces and other standards required to support diverse inference and AI application workloads. Defining and advancing platform observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, and operational diagnostics for distributed systems at scale. Driving capacity planning and scalability strategies to ensure the platform can support growth in traffic, models, and regional deployments.
Leading Kubernetes-based orchestration patterns for platform services, helping ensure efficient, resilient, and operable deployment of containerized workloads. Mentoring and guiding engineers on the team through code reviews, design discussions, and technical problem-solving. Do what you love To be successful in this role you will: Possess software engineering expertise with advanced proficiency in distributed systems, cloud services, and platform engineering.