Principal Software Engineer
About The Position
As part of Akamai's Cloud Compute team, we enable customers to connect their on-premise or cloud infrastructure to the Akamai Connected Cloud, by improving the platform's IP addressing and building products to integrate better into data centers and other public clouds. This role offers a unique opportunity to write production-quality software in the networking domain. Partner with the best. As part of our team, you will focus on building highly reliable, scalable and cost-effective storage solutions. Our platform empowers enterprises to create modern solutions to the world's problems.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of professional software engineering experience; relevant experience and education in Computer Science or a related field.
- Deep, proven professional experience in Go (experience with C++ is a welcome bonus, but not required).
- Solid experience building high-performance, reliable systems (profiling, concurrency, memory/latency optimization and performance debugging).
- Proven track record of designing and improving complex distributed systems, including the architecture that runs in production on Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with containers, Kubernetes, serverless computing, and Linux APIs.
- Take a higher-level view when making technical decisions, weighing many inputs and the longer-term implications of each choice.
- Work well with others: collaborative, open-minded, proving a point on its merits. open to solutions, knowledge sharing, mentoring, and curiosity
- Comfortable working in an Agile development environment (iterative delivery, reviews, planning, and continuous improvement).
Nice To Haves
- experience with C++ is a welcome bonus, but not required
Responsibilities
- Getting in early on an exceptionally rare and impactful project
- Owning the architecture and technical direction of a platform built to scale
- Working day-to-day in a close-knit team but part of a wider group to solve our most complex distributed systems challenges
- Weighing the longer-term implications of design decisions, not just the problem in front of you
- Helping the team grow through mentoring, code review, and raising our engineering standards; defining the next generation of cloud tooling
- Working to define the next generation of cloud tooling
Benefits
- We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work.
- FlexBase program
- healthcare
- RRSP
- company holidays
- vacation (in the form of PTO)
- sick time
- family friendly benefits
- employee assistance program
- focus on mental and financial wellness
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
Associate degree
