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Principal Software Engineer Lead

Akamai — Content delivery and security

United States Remote Senior+ Posted Oct 13, 2026
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About the role

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will own the design of the control plane that places, reconciles, and operates VMs across the Compute fleet.

What the index says about this role

  • First seen by JobLarper — Oct 15, 2026, 2 days ago. Still inside the window where applications get read by a human rather than a pile.
  • No pay range in our index for this listing. Across 1,749 indexed Software Engineer roles in US that do publish one, the middle half sits between $185k and $288k, median $225k — JobLarper's read of the market, not a figure from Akamai.
  • What Software Engineer roles ask for — across 10,383 indexed openings: REST/APIs (41%), Python (38%), Backend (38%), Cloud (33%), Go (28%).
  • Akamai is hiring actively — 199 open roles indexed, 108 first appeared in the last 30 days.

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