8 hours ago
Remote, Czechia or Prague, CzechiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale a Fleet Operations Platform for thousands of compute machines and millions of customer workloads.
- Develop software running on hosts in Akamai data centers and provide technical expertise and leadership to the team.
- Improve internal processes and systems.
- Develop automated functional and regression test suites for fault tolerance and error handling.
- Troubleshoot upgrade failures, diagnose performance bottlenecks, and resolve issues across the hypervisor and Linux host stack.
- Evaluate data using statistics and perform troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
- Discuss software architectures from concept through implementation and apply domain expertise to technical challenges.
Requirements
- Extensive relevant experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Proficiency with Python or Go, REST APIs, CLI scripting, and SQL databases.
- Experience designing, building, and scaling production microservices architectures.
- Experience with Linux-based operating systems, virtualization, KVM, and live migrations.
- Ability to evaluate data using statistics, troubleshoot issues, and perform root cause analysis.
- Ability to reason about abstract software architectures through implementation.
- Collaborative communication and joint problem-solving skills in an agile/Scrum environment.
Benefits
- Akamai benefits support health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work.
- FlexBase supports working from home, in an office, or through a combination of both.
- Remote work arrangement is indicated by the job title and FlexBase description.
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.