Senior II Software Engineer Lead - Akamai Inference Cloud (Remote)

Akamai Technologies is a leader in cloud computing and digital security. They are seeking a Senior II Software Engineer Lead to drive the design and implementation of critical components for their AI inference platform, ensuring performance and scalability while mentoring other engineers.

Responsibilities:

• 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 approaches for AI inference workloads
• Mentoring and guiding engineers on the team through code reviews, design discussions, and technical problem-solving
• Implementing and optimizing containerized AI workloads with hardware-specific optimizations and integrating inference frameworks at scale
• Collaborating across teams to define technical requirements, contribute to platform standards, and ensure operational excellence

Requirements:

• 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent
• Solid proficiency in distributed systems, cloud services, and platform engineering
• Hands-on experience with AI inference, model serving, or LLM deployment with working knowledge of inference frameworks (TensorRT, vLLM, TorchServe, Triton)
• Expertise in containerization and orchestration technologies including Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native architectures
• Proven experience building scalable, high-performance systems with modern DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code
• Solid technical leadership through mentoring, code quality advocacy, and ability to drive technical solutions for complex problems
• Familiarity with API design and development (REST/gRPC patterns), GPU infrastructure and hardware acceleration
• Knowledge of observability, monitoring, and debugging distributed systems