21 hours ago
Base Salary
$121k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop features that improve the performance, reliability, and security of Akamai Cloud Platform.
- Port Akamai modifications to newer Linux kernel versions.
- Debug and fix issues in complex test and production environments.
- Enhance build and test automation for continuous testing.
- Collaborate with platform, application, testing, and hardware development teams.
- Contribute work to the open-source community and stay current with Linux kernel and operating system changes.
Requirements
- Have five years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
- Have at least three years of C software development experience focused on Linux kernel development, along with Perl, Python, or Shell scripting experience.
- Understand Linux kernel internals and have experience with Linux kernel debugging.
- Have experience with at least two of memory management, filesystems, block I/O, TCP/IP stack, and KVM.
- Understand concurrent programming, data structures, algorithms, complexity analysis, and network protocols including TCP, UDP, IP, Ethernet, QUIC, HTTP, and TLS.
- Demonstrate strong communication, collaboration, self-direction, and independent working skills.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangement through FlexBase, 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, and an employee assistance program focused on mental and financial wellness.
- 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.