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Do you thrive on technical leadership and building cutting-edge AI systems? Are you ready to shape the platform foundations that power AI inference at global scale? Join the Akamai Inference Cloud Team! The Akamai Inference Cloud team is part of Akamais 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. #The Senior II Software Engineer Lead designs and develops foundational features for a global AI inference platform. As a Senior II Software Engineer Lead, you will be responsible for: Driving technical decisions for your domain, selecting appropriate tools, frameworks, and architectural approaches for secure, scalable, and high-performance inference platform services. Designing and improving data plane APIs, including OpenAI-compatible interfaces and other standards required to support diverse inference and AI application workloads. Mentoring and guiding engineers on the team through code reviews, design discussions, and technical problem-solving. Possess 8+ of software engineering expertise with advanced proficiency in distributed systems, cloud services, and platform engineering. Demonstrate advanced expertise in cloud-native architectures, incorporating containerization and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes. Have proven experience building scalable, high-performance systems with modern DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code. Exhibit technical leadership by guiding, promoting code quality, and delivering solutions for intricate platform challenges. Have experience designing and operating API platforms, including authentication, authorization, traffic management, and service protection patterns. Demonstrate extensive expertise in observability, monitoring, alerting, and debugging processes for large-scale distributed systems. Have experience with capacity planning, performance analysis, and reliability engineering for production services. FlexBase, Akamais 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). 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 Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like! At Akamai, were curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, youll thrive here. Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the worlds most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. LI-Remote