Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Platform

Qualifications

Applicants must meet one of the following education and experience requirements:

* 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or its equivalent or

* 5 years of relevant experience and a Master’s degree in computer science/engineering or

* relevant experience and a PhD in computer science/engineering

Required Skills

* 5+ years of experience with 1 or more of the following languages— Python, Perl, C/C++, Java

* 3+ years of experience with SQL

* 3+ years of experience working on Linux/Unix platforms.

* 2+ years of experience in IaaS adoption or private cloud.

Desired Skills

* Experience with Content Distribution Networks

* Experience in IaaS adoption in a non-virtualized legacy environment

* Data center utilization monitoring and COGs modeling

* Linux host system hypervisors including KVM

* LXC based frameworks

* Linux kernel development and/or performance tuning

* Designing, implementing and deploying continuous build/deployment frameworks

* Site reliability engineering and/or work related including service performance

* Experience building scalable servers or distributed systems.

* 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.

Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.