Senior Software Engineer II

Required Education and Experience
* 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelors degree or
* 6 years of relevant experience and a Masters degree 

Required Skills
* 8+ years of experience with Linux or Unix-based development and product deployments.
* 3+ years of experience with multi-threaded development.
* 3+ years of development experience with Java
* 3+ years of development experience with REST based APIs
* 3+ years of development experience with relational databases

Desired Skills
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Development experience with Golang
* Proven track record of working on high quality code that needs knowledge of interaction with different subsystems such as memory manager, file system, and networking.
* Ability to quickly debug problems and performance bottlenecks stemming from complex interactions between user and kernel space.
* Experience in one or more scripting languages (shell, Perl, Python, etc).
* SSL knowledge, preferably working knowledge of openssl.
* Experience with the architecture of large, distributed and complex systems.
* Web traffic experience related to datacenters and websites
* Experience with Internet protocols, including TCP/IP, UDP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS and load balancers.
* Experience with web protocols, including JSON, CSS, Javascript, HTML, proxies/caches and firewalls
* Strong communication skills and ability to work across teams.
* Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, small-team environment.
* Experience in a role requiring highly responsible, self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, work with little or no supervision.

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.