Principal Architect

Job description

Would you enjoy working with the world's most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery? Are you interested in designing platform architectures for large distributed systems? Come join our Cloud Technology Group! Akamai's Cloud Technology Group (CTG) takes ownership for designing, building, maintaining and operating our global CDN and compute platform. We develop and deploy critical technologies that provide the technical underpinnings for all of Akamai's products. The CTO's team ensures consistent security, reliability and availability for our customers. Partner with the best: As a Principal Architect, you will drive the evolution of Akamai's platform architectures, leading cross-engineering efforts to identify, prioritize, and design solutions for critical platform system initiatives whose execution will form the foundation for all of Akamai's products and services. As a Principal Architect reporting to the CTO of our global cloud platform, you will be responsible for: - Identifying critical improvements for inclusion in the platform systems roadmap. - Collaborating with architects across engineering to define solutions for delivering our platform r...