7 hours ago
Base Salary
$121k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop features that improve the performance, reliability, and security of the 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.
- Upstream work to the open-source community and track Linux kernel and operating-system changes.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
- At least 3 years of software development experience in C focused on Linux kernel development, plus scripting experience with Perl, Python, or Shell.
- Solid understanding of Linux kernel internals and experience with Linux kernel debugging.
- Experience with at least two of memory management, filesystems, block I/O, TCP/IP stack, or KVM.
- Working knowledge of concurrent programming, data structures, algorithms, complexity analysis, and network protocols including TCP, UDP, IP, Ethernet, QUIC, HTTP, and TLS.
- Strong collaboration, independent-work, verbal communication, and written communication skills.
Benefits
- Flexible work at home, in an office, or in a combination of both through Akamai’s FlexBase program.
- Healthcare, 401(k) savings plan, company holidays, PTO, sick time, parental leave, and employee assistance programs focused on mental and financial wellness.
- Potential annual bonus or incentive compensation, 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.