Lead Senior Software Engineer II (onsite), Cambridge, MA

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Posted: July 16, 2018

Job title: Lead Senior Software Engineer II

Company name: Akamai Technologies

Location: Cambridge, MA

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
About the Job
Akamai's Server Platform Engineering team is looking for a
talented engineer to lead our Server Configuration team. Your team will be
responsible for developing critical software components that form the
foundation of Akamai’s globally-distributed platform. 

Our software allows
engineers across the company to customize nearly any aspect of core system
configuration. Through our API environment, engineers can provide and
consume a wealth of proprietary and open-source technologies. Using these
capabilities, product groups across the company are able to rapidly build
sophisticated, highly-integrated systems that operate at global scale with
the level of security and reliability that Akamai customers expect.

In
addition to successful leadership experience, the ideal candidate has a
strong linux background and is highly motivated to design and develop
innovative solutions using languages such as Python, Perl, and SQL. The
right candidate will take pride in writing maintainable and highly reliable
code. They will also understand the big system picture and be able to solve
complicated problems within that system. The lead will work closely with
other engineers at the company and should be able to conduct design and
code reviews.

About the Team
Server Platform Engineering is a team of
engineers who develop distributed systems that support Akamai's global
network composed of over 240,000 servers, 1700 networks, and 130 countries.
In general, these systems operate behind the scenes to provide the
fault-tolerant and highly scalable core of Akamai's configuration and
health monitoring systems. In this role, the lead engineer will work on
Akamai's core configuration processing and service control systems that
manage the configuration of Akamai's distributed network.

Responsibilities
* Design and develop next-generation capabilities for installing and
controlling Akamai services.
* Design and develop enhancements to existing
install and service control interfaces.
* Oversee support activities.
Provide architectural guidance to user community. 
* Plan projects, oversee
work, provide guidance, perform code reviews, and develop talent.
* Work to
understand, document and improve complicated code bases.
* Work with our
development QA and system QA teams to come up with regression tests that
cover new changes to our software.

Desired skills:
Applicants must meet one of the following education and experience
requirements:
* 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree in
Computer Science or its equivalent or
* 6 years of relevant experience and
a Master’s degree in Computer Science or 
* 3 years of relevant experience
and a PhD in Computer Science

Required Skills
* 3+ years of experience as
a hands-on technical leader
* 5+ years of experience with Perl, Python or
C++ on Linux or a Unix based OS
* 5+ years of experience working with Linux
OS and System Internals
* 5+ years of strong expertise with building
scalable servers or distributed systems

Desired Skills
* Masters or Ph.D
in Computer Science or related field with a focus on distributed systems,
system architecture, or security
* Solid understanding of internet protocol
basics including TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS
* Experience developing interfaces for
broad internal consumption
* Experience developing server configuration
and/or management systems
* Experience developing distributed systems
*
Experience with databases and SQL
* Proven track record of delivering large
amounts of high quality, complex code
* Excellent written and verbal
communications skills

Website for more information:
https://akamaijobs.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/lead-senior-software-engi
neer-ii-7982

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/21288#contact