About the Job
* Assist, and lead, design efforts for advanced features within Akamai's distributed storage platform which acts as origin server for many of the world's most highly visible web sites.
* Work in a small team environment with strong support from software development and infrastructure organizations.
* Interact with Akamai Network Operations teams to understand production system issues with the goal of developing improvements in reliability and operability.
About the Team
The Media and CDN Engineering group is responsible for all of the software used to deliver, download, store, and manage digital media and other web content via the Akamai network. This includes developing and maintaining Akamai´s core caching and web server technology that runs on our network of 60,000+ servers located around the world, as well as the Live and On-Demand Streaming products that are used to deliver media content for major events. On the back end, developers work on Akamai´s NetStorage system that stores massive amounts of customer content. This group also builds and maintains the StreamOS Portal, which enables customers to efficiently manage and monetize their digital media content. All of this technology is built upon our customized operating system and kernel, also maintained by this group. The members of this group also work on some of our internally developed monitoring software that constantly provides server health and status information to our centralized monitoring infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
* Interact with other development groups to leverage existing technologies.
* Document your designs and present your work for review by peer architects.
* Analyze your work with respect to performance and reliability.
* Build test plans for your designs to demonstrate proper operation to meet both internal and external customer expectations for reliability and performance.
* Follow and advocate for good development methodology, including collaboration with SQA and Network Operations departments to successfully deploy new system components.
Basic Qualifications
* Masters or PhD, or equivalent, in computer engineering, computer science, mathematics, or electrical engineering.
* Minimum 5 years experience in development and operation of very large distributed storage systems with geographically dispersed mirrors.
* Minimum 5 years experience in a design capacity with responsibility for documenting, defending, and communicating design proposals.
* Minimum 10 years experience in software development with IP networks, including use of DNS and both TCP and UDP.
* Minimum 10 years experience in distributed systems development, including experience with a service oriented business and remote operations.
Desired Qualifications
* Well informed about current published work and state of the art relating to public cloud storage platforms, their architectures, and actual deployment.
* Practical experience with use of various network transport acceleration techniques having alternate flow control and custom protocols.
* Experience with content management workflow and applications in the media business, especially with respect to transfer and safe handling of large files.
Other Information
* Is relocation available for this position: No
* Is US Citizenship required: No
* Is a Security Clearance Required: No
If yes, applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation & must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
About Akamai
Akamai provides market-leading, cloud-based services for optimizing Web and mobile content and applications, online HD video, and secure e-commerce. Combining highly-distributed, energy-efficient computing with intelligent software, Akamai has grown from a theoretical "big idea" in 1998, into one of the world's most successful technology companies. With more than 2,000 employees and over 85,000 servers located around the world Akamai´s distributed computing system is transforming the cloud into a more viable place to inform, entertain, advertise, transact and collaborate.
Contact us!
If you´re excited by Akamai and would like to help change the online landscape please apply.
Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity employer (M/F/D/V) that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace.
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