Akamai

Principal Software Engineer

Akamai
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4 days ago
Remote, United States or Cambridge, MA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$186k - $305k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design entire software subsystems and groups of components for maintainability, performance, and functionality.
  • Lead code reviews and guide the definition of business problems, technical requirements, and solutions.
  • Develop debugging tools, frameworks, development conventions, processes, and productivity improvements.
  • Evaluate production quality using objective data measurements and advocate for large-scale refactoring when needed.
  • Lead and advise QA on test infrastructure, automation, and productivity tools.
  • Identify operating-system-dependent performance issues and propose global optimizations.

Requirements

  • Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in a listed technical field plus six years of experience in the job offered or a closely related engineering role, or a bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent plus eight years of such experience.
  • At least one year of experience with highly available web content-management solutions including SDL, Tridion, WorldServer, KnowledgeCenter, Marketo, Cast Iron, and Informatica.
  • At least one year of experience with front-end and back-end web development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSP, ASPX, JSON, REST, .NET, Java, and XML.
  • At least one year of experience with Windows Server 2012 and Linux administration, enterprise content-management best practices, workflow automation, segmentation rules, application integration, and database design.
  • At least one year of experience with IIS, Apache, HTTP web servers, and Tomcat.
  • At least one year of experience with Agile software development methodology, Jira, Git, Jenkins, and testing automation.

Benefits

  • Telecommuting is permitted from anywhere in the United States, with Akamai’s FlexBase model supporting home, office, or hybrid work.
  • Benefits include healthcare, a 401(k) savings plan, company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, employee assistance, and mental and financial wellness support.
  • The compensation package may include annual bonuses or incentives, equity awards, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan; eligibility requirements apply.

Tech Stack

CSSGitHTMLInformaticaJavaJavaScriptJenkinsLinux.NET

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About Akamai

10,000+ employees

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.

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