Senior Site Reliability Engineer (C++)

Akamai

4d•Remote

About The Position

Our Security Edge team designs and develops software that runs one of the world's largest distributed systems. This network allows us to solve problems at a scale that few others can approach. We take pride in helping our customers protect their web sites and transactions over the Internet. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll analyze the software running on production networks, identify improvements and propose cost-cutting solutions. Collaborating throughout the organization, you'll support multiple products and deliver on the design of customer solutions. You'll ensure our customers manage their security traffic in a more reliable and scalable way.

Requirements

Have 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent experience
Have an active security clearance.
Possess experience working in networking, cloud, or distributed computing environment.
Demonstrate experience programming with C++.
Have working knowledge with Linux or UNIX operating systems.
Demonstrate good verbal and written communication skills and ability to write design documentation

Responsibilities

Investigating customer escalations and providing mitigation.
Working on tooling to automate production debugging.
Setting up continuous production profiling, identifying areas of cost reduction, and proposing new designs.
Creating and enhancing features and functionality, from conception and design through to testing and deployment.
Validating the result of cost reduction and providing benchmark results.
Conducting code reviews and helping other engineers to optimize their code.
Working with development and system QA teams to create regression tests that cover changes to our software.