Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer

Do you have a passion for making systems run as efficiently as possible?

Do you want to work with an amazing global team of innovators?

Join the Akamai Object Storage team!

As part of Akamai's Cloud Compute team, we enable customers to connect their on-premise or cloud infrastructure to the Akamai Connected Cloud, by improving the platform's IP addressing and building products to integrate better into data centers and other public clouds. This role offers a unique opportunity to write production-quality software in the networking domain.

Partner with the best

As part of our team, you will focus on building highly reliable, scalable and cost-effective storage solutions. Our platform empowers enterprises to create modern solutions to the world's problems.

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

• Getting in early on an exceptionally rare and impactful project
• Owning the architecture and technical direction of a platform built to scale
• Working day-to-day in a close-knit team but part of a wider group to solve our most complex distributed systems challenges
• Weighing the longer-term implications of design decisions, not just the problem in front of you
• Helping the team grow through mentoring, code review, and raising our engineering standards; defining the next generation of cloud tooling
• Working to define the next generation of cloud tooling

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Bring at least 10 years of professional software engineering experience; relevant experience and education in Computer Science or a related field.
• Have deep, proven professional experience in Go (experience with C++ is a welcome bonus, but not required).
• Have solid experience building high-performance, reliable systems (profiling, concurrency, memory/latency optimization and performance debugging).
• Show a proven track record of designing and improving complex distributed systems, including the architecture that runs in production on Kubernetes.
• Have familiarity with containers, Kubernetes, serverless computing, and Linux APIs.
• Take a higher-level view when making technical decisions, weighing many inputs and the longer-term implications of each choice.
• Work well with others: collaborative, open-minded, proving a point on its merits. Open to solutions, knowledge sharing, mentoring, and curiosity
• Be comfortable working in an Agile development environment (iterative delivery, reviews, planning, and continuous improvement).

About Us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day. Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple: Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance. Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data. Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch. AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform. At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

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Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work. We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from 140,400 - 252,800 CAD/year; a candidate's salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, RRSP, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

Job Info

• Job Identification 3109
• Posting Date 06/09/2026, 03:21 PM
• Locations 343 Preston Street, Suite 420, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 1N4, CA (Remote)