Senior II Software Engineer Lead - Akamai Inference Cloud

Do you thrive on technical leadership and building cutting-edge AI systems?

Are you ready to drive innovation at the intersection of AI and edge computing?

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

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As a Senior II Software Engineer Lead, this role involves leading the design and implementation of vital AI platform components. Responsibilities include building and optimizing systems for OpenAI-compatible endpoints and managing inference workloads across regions. You will mentor engineers, shape technical decisions, and ensure scalable, high-quality solutions. Expertise in AI/ML systems and exceptional problem-solving abilities are essential.

As a Senior II Software 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 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.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have broad software engineering experience with relevant proficiency in distributed systems, cloud services, and platform engineering.

• Demonstrate hands-on experience with AI inference, model serving, or LLM deployment with working knowledge of inference frameworks (TensorRT, vLLM, TorchServe, Triton).

• Show expertise in cloud-native architectures including containerization and orchestration technologies like Kubernetes and Docker.

• Have proven experience building scalable, high-performance systems with modern DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.

• Demonstrate broad technical leadership through mentoring, code quality advocacy, and ability to drive technical solutions for complex problems.

• Have knowledge of observability, monitoring, and debugging distributed systems.

• Show familiarity with GPU infrastructure and hardware acceleration.

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply. Learn what makes Akamai a great place to work

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