| Location: | Cambridge, MA, US | Posted Date: | 2014-02-18 00:00:00.0 | ||
| Category: | Mobile | ID: | 9703 |
Overview:
About the Job
An Akamai Principal Systems Software Engineer/architect designs new customer-oriented products and features and is responsible for leading the end-to-end design of the product. The position requires a high degree of creativity and the ability to work “outside the box”.
This is not a high level architecture only position. A significant portion of a candidate’s success will be measured by her/his ability to rapidly prototype
her/his/others concepts and design, and to do so in a fashion such that these prototype efforts can be efficiently productized.
Excellent communication skills will be necessary in order to clearly communicate expectations with respect to prototyping and product design goals and progress against those goals. Similarly, the successful candidate will be communicating with other groups across Akamai which will be supplying support for architectural integration as well modification of existing functionality.
About Emerging Mobile Products Unit
The team is focused on developing new, innovative products that leverage Akamai’s unique visibility into Internet traffic and its highly distributed cloud platform. You will be working on developing new and groundbreaking mobile and Big Data products with global impact.
Responsibilities:
* Architect and design robust and valuable product solutions concentrating on end-to-end system level design for next-generation CDN solutions for mobile
* Collaborate with other teams such as Product Management, Information Security, Networks and Operations to create innovative software solutions to
complex and interwoven sets of problems.
* Lead design discussions and develop software that enriches the product feature set while maintaining robustness, scalability and fault-tolerance.
* Leverage a commanding knowledge of customer business challenges to ensure products are designed to meet their needs.
* Provide technical leadership across engineering to ensure product development is smooth, evolving the design as needed.
Qualifications:
Required Qualifications
* 5+ years of prior demonstrable experience at the systems level architect level ideally with experience in content delivery network development
* Coder/hacker capable of rapidly pumping out prototypes with 10+ years’ experience in systems-level programming in C or C++
* 7+ years of experience in software development
* 3+ years of experience with CDN development
Desired Qualifications
* Exceptional written and verbal technical and interpersonal communications skills with demonstrable depth of experience in communicating with internal groups such including Product Management, Services, and Operations.
* Understands the difference between a prototype and a product and needs to be able to rapidly transition to productization when the time is right.
* Knowledge of CDN or mobile
* Deep knowledge of apple OS devices development ideally with underlying knowledge of general
networking.
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:
About AkamaiAkamai® 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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