| Location: | Cambridge, MA, US | Posted Date: | 2013-12-10 00:00:00.0 |
| Cost Center: | 247 | Category: | |
| ID: | 9419 |
Overview:
About the Job
We're looking for top-notch engineers to design and create Akamai’s next-generation products for network service providers. In this role, you will work on the core server software of Akamai’s Carrier Products and develop mission critical software for supporting systems that enable the platform to run efficiently and without failure under challenging and unpredictable network conditions. Surrounded by Akamai's innovation driven culture, you'll apply your in-depth knowledge of network and application layer protocols to create unique and powerful solutions to networking and content delivery challenges of service providers.
About the Team
Akamai’s Carrier Products Division is a dynamic “start-in“ group that defines, develops, and sells Akamai’s carrier products to fixed and mobile carriers. The group is responsible for Akamai’s Aura Network Solutions and incorporates the strength of Akamai’s global distributed computing system packaged into products and sold to network service providers (Telcos, ISPs, MSOs). The division collaborates closely with the other product and engineering groups within Akamai as well many external partners and customers.
Responsibilities:
Akamai is seeking a dynamic Principal Systems Software Engineer to develop software for Akamai’s distributed storage platform. The Principal Systems Software Engineer will work in an Agile Scrum team designing and developing software for the core platform services and analytics functions of Akamai’s Carrier Products Group Platform team.
* As part of the team, innovate software solutions to complex and interwoven sets of problems challenging the group.
* Create high performance software.
* Create mission-critical subsystems that enable and support a distributed and intelligent content delivery platform.
* As an individual, expeditiously contribute to designs and develop software that enriches the product feature set while maintaining robustness, scalability and fault-tolerance.
* As senior developer, advocate best practices surrounding the software development life cycle and use your experience to mentor others.
Qualifications:
* Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
* Minimum of 8 years of C/C++, Java or Python development experience on Linux/Unix platforms.
* Minimum of 8 years of experience working in TCP/IP networking, multithreading and server development.
* Minimum of 8 years working with common Internet protocols (IP, TCP, SSL/TLS, HTTP, DNS, etc).
* Minimum of 8 years of design and development for mission critical, high-availability systems.
* Experience architecting and building large scaled distributed systems / applications using a range of big data architectures and technologies for delivering high performing real-time analytics.
Desired Qualifications
* Experience designing and implementing Cassandra or other NoSQL data stores.
* Experience with Big Data technologies such as Hadoop/MapReduce, Flume.
* Expertise in maintaining data architectures, including data modeling and application data usage patterns.
* Experience delivering quality products by incorporating purposeful automated unit and component tests within a continuous integration development environment.
* Experience excelling collaboratively and completing deliverables within an Agile Scrum development methodology.
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® is the leading cloud platform for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device, anywhere. At the core of the company’s solutions is the Akamai Intelligent PlatformTM providing extensive reach, coupled with unmatched reliability, security, visibility and expertise. Akamai removes the complexities of connecting the increasingly mobile world, supporting 24/7 consumer demand, and enabling enterprises to securely leverage the cloud. To learn more about how Akamai is accelerating the pace of innovation in a hyperconnected world, please visit www.akamai.com and follow @Akamai on Twitter.
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