Principal Software Engineer

7 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Akamai Full time £80,000 - £120,000 per year
Description

Do you have a passion for making systems run as efficiently as possible?

Does it bother you when they don't?

Join our innovative team

Our Cloud Technology Group's Compute division, formerly Linode, consists 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. We operate at an unmatched scale.

Shape the future of performance at Akamai

With your Kubernetes expertise, you can design and amplify the scale and performance of Akamai's Object Storage Product to meet customer demands. You will be responsible for evolving the scale, performance, security, and capabilities of our managed Kubernetes platform. You will provide a simple and seamless experience developers have come to expect from Linode.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:

  • Developing features and product enhancements
  • Advocating and encourage cloud-native technologies and architectural approaches
  • Contributing towards building the roadmap for stable and scalable cloud-native offerings
  • Enabling a simple and seamless way for our customers to deploy and operate their Kubernetes clusters
  • Developing best practices, knowledge sharing, and mentoring

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

  • Have deep experience building Kubernetes Platform Clusters with scale and Cloud Native technologies
  • Have advanced knowledge of Kubernetes concepts such as Operator creation, Cluster API, and Container Network Interfaces
  • Have experience with Container Runtimes (e.g. docker, containers, etc)
  • Demonstrate significant experience with Linux, Go, Python

Build your career at Akamai

Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We're doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn, grow and have a meaningful impact.

With our company moving so fast, it's important that you're able to build new skills, explore new roles, and try out different opportunities. There are so many different ways to build your career at Akamai, and we want to support you as much as possible. We have all kinds of development opportunities available, from programs such as GROW and Mentoring, to internal events like the APEX Expo and tools such as Linkedin Learning, all to help you expand your knowledge and experience here.

Learn more

Not sure if this job is the right match for you or want to learn more about the job before you apply? Schedule a 15-minute exploratory call with the Recruiter and they would be happy to share more details.

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