Software Engineer II

Akamai•Cambridge, MA

11d•$95,000 - $171,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Join Akamai's prestigious Mapping Engineering team, where we build the core traffic-steering systems behind Akamai's Intelligent Platform. Our software measures and models the global Internet, then directs traffic across Akamai's worldwide network of servers. These systems help customers deliver digital experiences with industry-leading performance, reliability, and scale. In this role, you'll develop software that will improve the speed, reliability and security of web experiences all over the world. You will work collaboratively within your team and with other teams at Akamai.

Requirements

2 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent experience
Demonstrate solid experience working in C/C++ or another object-oriented language
Have experience developing, analyzing or improving algorithms.
Be comfortable solving complex technical problems collaboratively
Be curious, adaptable, and eager to learn new technologies.
Be familiar with the Linux operating system and scripting languages (e.g. Python, shell, perl)

Responsibilities

Analyzing, designing, and implementing systems software that brings new functionality and increased accuracy, reliability and performance to our mapping system
Evolving complex algorithms to best respond to unpredictable traffic patterns on the global Internet
Improving the scalability, robustness, and ease of use of our software systems for testing, deployment, monitoring and maintenance
Becoming a subject matter expert for our systems, explaining and improving our software, and assisting with troubleshooting
Measuring, assessing, and tuning the effects of our global control systems