Senior Software Engineer

Qualifications 

Required Education and Experience 

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

* 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree or 

* 3 years of relevant experience and a Master’s degree or 

* Relevant experience and a PhD 

Required Skills  

* 3 years of experience developing, deploying and supporting applications on the Linux operating system  

* 3 years of experience in developing applications in one or more languages: C, GO, Python or Java  

* 3+ years writing code on large complex distributed systems   

Desired Skills

* Passion to understand, learn, and evaluate new technologies  experience with public/private cloud infrastructure environments, services and API’s  

* Experience working with Internet protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP/IP, and/or HTTP  

* Experience with Container & Orchestration frameworks: LXC, Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm.  

* Experience with Networking and Security Protocols: IPv4, IPv6, TCP, SSL, TLS  

* Experience with building and maintaining modern rest web services  

* Experience with GRPC or protocol buffers  

* Expertise in Secure Software Design and Architecture  

* Experience with secrets management, certificates, encryption and keys.  

* Familiarity with software security weakness, vulnerability and secure code review  

* Familiarity with software attack and exploitation techniques  

* Experience with observability stacks and tools (Prometheus, Grafana)  

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, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.