15 hours ago
Base Salary
$146k - $264k/yr
Responsibilities
- Analyze system performance across virtualized and bare-metal environments.
- Identify, design, and implement performance enhancements and new features.
- Participate in introducing and productizing new servers and hardware.
- Extend metrics collection and create visualizations for system performance.
- Build tooling to identify system performance problems more quickly.
- Debug and improve Linux kernel, operating-system, hardware, and virtualization behavior.
Requirements
- Have 8 years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
- Have extensive programming experience in C and experience with one or more of Rust, Python, Bash, or Perl.
- Have deep knowledge of the Linux kernel, computer system architecture, and software-hardware interactions.
- Have experience with software and hardware virtualization, including QEMU, KVM, SVM, and VHE.
- Have experience with hardware enablement and debugging, especially board bring-up and/or GPUs.
- Have experience with performance and debugging tools such as perf, bcc tools, and BPF.
- Understand concurrent programming, data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis.
- Know common hardware interconnects including PCI Express, CXL, CCIX, and USB.
Benefits
- Flexible FlexBase work arrangement allowing employees to work from home, in an office, or in a combination of both.
- Benefits include healthcare, a 401(k) savings plan, company holidays, PTO, sick time, parental leave, an employee assistance program, and mental and financial wellness support.
- Additional compensation may include annual bonuses or incentives, equity awards, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan; eligibility requirements apply.
About Akamai
Akamai builds content delivery, cloud security, and edge compute services for enterprises that run consumer and business web, API, and video workloads. The public company (NASDAQ: AKAM), founded in 1998 and headquartered in Cambridge, MA, operates a global CDN and security platform and sells via subscriptions and usage-based services. It expanded into cloud infrastructure by acquiring Linode in 2022, offering IaaS and managed Kubernetes.