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 solutions for our networking challenges and for our clients, driving more and more traffic on the Internet, making it more reliable, secure and faster.
The ideal candidate must be very comfortable with and highly motivated by working with C / C++ code bases involving 100,000s lines of very complex multi-threaded networking code. This person takes pride in writing readable, maintainable, and highly reliable code. In fact, he / she considers software engineering and coding a form of art.
This person will work closely with many other teams inside the company such as the kernel, mapping, performance, EdgeComputing, Distributed Data Collection, QA, and many other teams.
About the Team
The candidate will be part of a highly skilled engineering team that´s responsible for creating the software that runs Akamai´s world-wide network, one of the largest distributed systems in the world. Our software is a combination of many different technologies. It is a web server, a web client, a distributed caching engine, and much more. It provides a scalable, fault tolerant solution to web sites for handling their traffic, speeds up applications and downloads, provides security, determines the fastest route from point A to point B, hops around bottlenecks on the Internet, does media streaming, adds many features that would normally be implemented in either a web server or a client, and provides a wide array of reporting abilities for our Network Operations Command Center and our customers.
By leveraging our global deployment of 40,000+ servers in 1,000+ networks, Akamai can uniquely solve problems and exceed fundamental limitations of traditional networking. Our technology is changing the rules of the game and challenging traditional thinking in a rapidly growing and very exciting market.
Responsibilities:
This Senior Software Engineer will create new features from scratch and enhance existing features in C / C++ for our highly scalable and massively distributed system. This person may also work on projects that make our network more scalable, faster, and secure. He/She will drive development from conception and design through testing and deployment. This engineer will also work with our development QA and system QA teams on coming up with regression tests that cover new changes to our software. He/She may also work with our 3rd level engineering support to troubleshoot complex problems our network.
Basic Qualifications
* Education: Bachelor´s Degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent experience.
* Minimum of 5 years of experience with C and / or C++ on Linux or a Unix based OS.
* Minimum of 5 years of in depth understanding of Internet protocols including TCP / IP, UDP / IP, and HTTP.
* Minimum of 5 years of strong expertise with multi-threaded development.
* Minimum of 5 years of very high coding and technical skills - proven track record of delivering large amounts of high quality, complex code.
Desired Qualifications
* Highly responsible, self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, able to work with little or no supervision.
* Passion to understand, learn, and dissect new technologies quickly on your own.
* Extensive experience working on multiple projects at a time in a fast paced, results oriented environment.
* Experience with the complete software development life cycle, from requirements to design, implementation, testing, and release.
* Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
* Pluses: XML, Perl, SQL, OpenSSL and various streaming protocols.
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.
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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