Job Description

Do you enjoy building reliable, scalable systems that power modern AI platforms?

Are you excited to work on the platform foundations behind global AI inference services?

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

Partner with the best

As a Software Engineer, contribute to designing, implementing, and operating core platform capabilities for a global AI inference platform. Collaborate with experienced engineers to build secure, scalable, and reliable services supporting workloads across regions. Focus areas include authentication, load balancing, firewalls, Kubernetes orchestration, and APIs. Solid engineering fundamentals, problem-solving skills, and interest in distributed systems and AI infrastructure are essential.

As a Software Engineer, You Will Be Responsible For

• Implementing and maintaining platform components for Akamai Inference Cloud, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and operability.
• Contributing to services across ingress, gateway, and data plane layers under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Supporting the development of platform capabilities such as authentication, traffic handling, and API service functionality.
• Helping build and improve data plane APIs, including interfaces aligned with OpenAI-compatible patterns and other supported standards.
• Writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code for cloud-native services running in containerized environments.
• Assisting with observability by contributing metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and operational diagnostics for distributed systems.
• Supporting Kubernetes-based deployment and orchestration of platform services in production environments.
• Collaborating with teammates in code reviews, design discussions, testing, and incident support to improve platform quality and operational excellence.
  
  

Do What You Love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Bring 2+ of software engineering experience, with a solid foundation in backend systems, cloud services, or platform engineering.
• Show proficiency in building and debugging distributed or service-oriented applications.
• Have familiarity with cloud-native technologies such as containers, Kubernetes, and modern deployment workflows.
• Demonstrate experience developing APIs or backend services with attention to reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Show understanding of core operational practices including testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Have familiarity with observability concepts such as metrics, logs, and tracing in production systems.
• Bring interest in internet-facing platform services such as ingress, authentication, load balancing, or API infrastructure.
• Show curiosity about AI inference platforms, model serving systems, or infrastructure used to support LLM and inference workloads.
  
  

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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