Senior Software Engineer II Akamai Technologies
Cambridge, MA

Job Description

Overview

Akamai is the world's largest and most trusted cloud delivery platform, delivering 95 exabytes of data a year across billions of devices. If you've ever shopped online, downloaded music, watched a web video or connected to work remotely, you've used Akamai's cloud delivery platform. At the heart of that platform is a set of systems that provide security, metadata delivery, communications, and infrastructure services for the entire Akamai network. Our users rely on our scalable and secure platform offerings to quickly deploy and monitor apps and services which are the foundation of Akamai's products.

We are looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer to join our team. We need versatile and creative engineers who can solve problems at all levels of the software stack, are interested in applying fresh ideas, and keep a keen eye towards leveraging existing cloud-native, open source, and public cloud applications. You will have the opportunity to use your knowledge, ingenuity, and skill to help us design and build next generation security, communications, safety, and platform/infrastructure as a service systems at the core of Akamai's globally distributed network.

Responsibilities

* Design and develop new features, optimize and enhance existing software functionality
* Understand broad sets of use cases, building the right APIs and features to support them
* Improve the testability, deployment, monitorability, and maintainability of our

software

* Become a subject matter expert for our systems with an ability to explain and improve complicated code bases and assist with troubleshooting complex problems
* Help make Akamai systems faster, more scalable, reliable, and secure

About the Team

Part of our Platform Engineering organization, Akamai's System Communications (SysComm) team is in charge of developing distributed systems and platform infrastructure services to support Akamai's global network powered by over 250,000 servers. These systems operate behind the scenes to secure our network, help product teams bring their latest ideas to market, and provide the fault-tolerant and highly-scalable core of Akamai's communications, configuration, and monitoring systems. The team develops a highly parallelized component responsible for propagating configuration throughout the Akamai network, one of the largest content distributed systems in the world.

Required Education and Experience

Applicants must meet one of the following education and experience requirements: 
* 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or

* 6 years of relevant experience and a Master's degree or
* 3 years of relevant experience and a PhD or
* Equivalent professional experience

Required Skills

* 8+ years of Experience in Python and/or Go.
* 8+killsyears of Experience with Linux.
* 8+ years of Experience with common Internet protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, and TLS/SSL.
* 8+ years of strong expertise with building scalable servers or distributed systems.
* 3+ years developing secure applications leveraging cryptographic libraries like OpenSSL, libsodium, etc.
* 3+ years of experience with databases and SQL.

Desired Skills

* Strong interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills.
* Extensive experience working on multiple projects at a time in a fast paced, results oriented environment.
* Proven track record of delivering large amounts of high quality, complex code
* Highly responsible, self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, able to work with little or no supervision. Highly responsible, self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, able to work with little or no supervision.
* Experience building scalable, production-grade distributed systems.
* Experience with databases, SQL, and/or distributed key-value storage solutions.