About the Job
Are you the type of person that likes to design and develop software to make online transactions faster and more secure? Have you built e-commerce payment gateways? Are you interested in working in a heavily distributed environment? Do you live, breathe and mull over C/C++ code? If so, please read further and feel free to submit your resume for this exciting opportunity.
Your C/C++ code will run on thousands of Akamai edge servers and help deliver a safe online environment for hundreds of top consumer and business web sites. You will be a key member in a high performance team to extend our core software that powers Akamai´s HTTP/S secure content delivery network.
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 web sites and applications running over various networking environments. By leveraging Akamai´s global Internet deployment of 70,000+ servers, we can uniquely solve technology problems and exceed fundamental limitations of networking.
Responsibilities:
You will develop and unit test software running on Akamai´s web acceleration and security platforms. You will be a major contributor to the development of a software architecture that can scale to meet the security and performance demands of Akamai´s widely distributed customer base.
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: Mobile application development, implementing secure products, OpenSSL, XML, Perl, SQL.
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.
------------------------------------
********************************************************************
Read the new KIT List blog at www.kitlist.wordpress.com for job tips and to connect to our community!
Please go to www.KITlist.org to join, post jobs, or get answers to common questions. If you have any comments or questions, you can reach us directly at KITtechmoderator@KITlist.org.
By using the KIT List you agree to comply with the Terms of Use on the site, and will not use discriminatory employment practices. The KIT List is a service of Connelly Communications, Inc.
TO UNSUBSCRIBE:
Replying to KIT emails with an "unsubscribe" request does not work.
Instead, just send an email (from the same account you used to subscribe) to KITlist-Tech-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com. If you are still receiving emails after a few days, please email us at KITtechmoderator@KITlist.org and we will manually remove you. Thanks!
Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KITlist-Tech/
<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional
<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KITlist-Tech/join
(Yahoo! ID required)
<*> To change settings via email:
KITlist-Tech-digest@yahoogroups.com
KITlist-Tech-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
KITlist-Tech-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
No comments:
Post a Comment