Akamai Technologies · 2 days ago
Senior Platform Architect - Remote
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$148K/yr - $308K/yr
10+ years expAkamai Technologies is a leading company that powers and protects life online. They are seeking a Senior Platform Architect to drive innovative security solutions across platform components and services, focusing on scalable architecture and collaborating with various stakeholders.
Cyber SecurityDigital MediaSaaSSoftwareVideo Streaming
Responsibilities
Demonstrating architectural leadership and technical expertise by owning end-to-end designs, focusing on meeting defined objectives around security, scalability, availability, reliability, and performance
Supporting the full product life cycle - ideation, implementation, operation
Working across stakeholders - Product Management, Engineering, DevOps, and InfoSec to satisfy their needs/requirements in the design process
Socializing and building consensus around architectural decisions to provide stable and secure products
Solving complex security problems across both the platform and products
Qualification
Required
10 years of relevant software engineering and design experience and a Bachelor's degree or Master's
Programming capabilities (e.g., Perl, Python, Go) to help prototype new product ideas and concepts
Experience with software and hardware vulnerability management, and tools e.g. Tenable, Vulcan Cyber, Trivy, SonarQube, etc
Familiarity with security concepts such as Zero Trust and secure/confidential computing (e.g., Intel SGX, AMD SEV-SNP, etc.)
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform, Salt, etc
Understanding of compliance regimes such as PCI, ISO, SOC2, and FedRamp
Knowledge and experience with hypervisors such as KVM and QEMU, and open source technologies and standards such as CNCF and Open Compute Project
Benefits
Healthcare
401K savings plan
Company holidays
Vacation (in the form of PTO)
Sick time
Family friendly benefits including parental leave
Employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness
Company
Akamai Technologies
Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.63BKey Investors
IVP
2025-05-14Post Ipo Debt· $1.5B
2023-08-15Post Ipo Debt· $1.1B
2001-08-01Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
Tom Leighton
Chief Executive Officer
Charlie Gero
CTO
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