Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Passionate about building a scalable cloud platform that powers enterprise-grade observability?

Are you a fast learner who enjoys working at the intersection of infrastructure, automation, and reliability?

Join one of our Cloud Observability teams

The team develops and supports a reliable monitoring system tailored for Linode Enterprise customers. It provides insights through a robust observability platform for telemetry, metrics, and logs. Additionally, the team manages Armada, a foundational platform enabling Cloud Observability services. Armada now plays a pivotal role in Kubernetes infrastructure orchestration, support delivery of one of the company's current top priority - the development of Akamai Inference Cloud.

Partner with the best

You will contribute to building and evolving a platform that is critical to enterprise customers and strategic internal initiatives.

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

• Supporting the development and maintenance of Armada as a core Cloud Observability platform (primarily in a DevOps capacity)
• Designing and implementing scalable, reliable Kubernetes-based infrastructure solutions
• Building and maintaining infrastructure as code using Terraform and Helm
• Automating operational workflows using Python and Bash
• Ensuring system stability, performance, and security across observability services
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to enable new services and infrastructure orchestration use cases
  
  

Do What You Love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have relevant professional experience and Bachelor's degree in Computer Science-related field or equivalent education
• Gain practical experience with a primary cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure), understanding external cloud practices like cost optimization and cluster management.
• Have strong experience with Python, Bash, Linux, Terraform, and Helm, be proficient with Kubernetes (CKAD level or equivalent experience)
• Have a solid understanding of networking fundamentals
• Demonstrate experience with GitHub Actions; familiarity with Golang is appreciated but not essential.
  
  

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.

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