About the Job
This position will offer the opportunity to work on software that runs one of the largest distributed systems in the world. You will be an integral part of our aggressive growth strategy for creating highly inventive technology solutions for our customers, driving more and more traffic on the Internet. If you want to work on technology problems that are interesting and challenging, then this is the role for you.
The ideal candidate will be highly motivated to design and develop innovative solutions via multi-threaded code in C or C++. This person takes pride in writing maintainable and highly reliable code. This person should be able to understand the big picture of the product and improve performance and reliability of various system resources. This person will work closely with many other internal teams inside the company and should be able to conduct design and code reviews.
About the Team
The Cloud Platforms Engineering team has responsibility for the technologies that power our Site and Acceleration Products, including Dynamic Site Accelerator, IP and Web Application Accelerator, Edge Computing, Mobile Optimization, and Edge Tokenization for Payment Services. These systems improve the speed and reliability of thousands of web sites and applications that include large amounts of dynamic content. In addition, this group is building unique technology that can secure the cloud and make it a safe place to do millions of transactions. Akamai has built a massive global distributed network that can solve problems at a scale that few others can approach. By leveraging our deployment of servers around the world, we can uniquely solve technology problems with innovative solutions that exceed the fundamental limitations of networking.
Responsibilities:
* Create new features from scratch, enhance existing features and optimize existing functionality, from conception and design through testing and deployment.
* Work on projects that make our network more stable, faster, and secure.
* Work with our development QA and system QA teams to come up with regression tests that cover new changes to our software.
* Work with our 3rd level engineering support to troubleshoot complex problems on our network for our customers.
Basic Qualifications
* Education: Bachelor´s Degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent experience.
* 5+ years of software development experience on Linux or a Unix based OS.
* 2+ years of coding experience in Javascript.
* 2+ years of coding experience in CSS.
* 2+ years of coding experience in Perl and/or Shell Scripting.
Desired Qualifications
* Proven track record of delivering large amounts of high quality, complex code.
* Ability to address and quickly fix browser compatibility issues.
* Highly responsible, self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, able to work with little or no supervision.
* Extensive experience working on multiple projects at a time in a fast paced, results oriented environment.
* Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
* Experience with Content Management Systems.
* Experience in XML, JSON and various other markup languages (ASP, CFM, PHP, XSL, JSP).
* Strong Object Oriented design, modeling and programming.
* Knowledge of website scaling techniques like caching, sharding.
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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