| Location: | Cambridge, MA, US | Posted Date: | 2013-07-01 00:00:00.0 |
| Cost Center: | 215 | Category: | Engineering |
| ID: | 8645 |
Overview:
About the Job
Akamai's System Communications team is looking for a talented software engineer to join our Network Management Systems Engineering team. This engineer will be responsible for design, development and support of Akamai’s core software distribution system for the Intelligent Platform.
The ideal candidate is highly motivated to design and develop innovative solutions using Python, Java, SQL and handful of other languages for supporting projects. This engineer should take pride in writing maintainable, testable and highly reliable code. This person should be able to understand the big picture of the system and be able to solve complicated problems within that system. This person will work closely with other engineers at the company and should be able to conduct design and code reviews.
About the Team
System Communications is a team of engineers who develop distributed systems that support Akamai's global network. In general, these systems operate behind the scenes to provide the fault-tolerant and highly scalable core of Akamai's configuration and health monitoring systems.
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 agile, stable, faster, and secure
* Work to understand, explain and improve complicated code bases.
* Work with our development QA and system QA teams to come up with regression tests that cover new changes to our software.
* Work with Operations to identify inefficiencies to be solved with software.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent experience.
* Minimum of 5 years expertise with building scalable servers or distributed systems.
* Minimum of 2 years development experience on Linux/ Unix platforms
* Minimum of 3 years experience with programming Java and/or Python
* Minimum of 3 years experience in System-level software development (multi-threading, networking, Daemons, and/or socket level programming)
Desired Qualifications
* Masters or Ph.D in Computer Science or related field with a focus on networking, distributed systems, system architecture, or security
* Proven track record of delivering large amounts of high quality, complex code.
* 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 working with Internet protocols including TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS.
* Experience with API design and Client/Server programming
* Familiarity with Databases/SQL, Perl and Linux shell scripts preferred
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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