Senior Software Engineer
Akamai Technologies
Job Description
<h3>Are you passionate about cutting edge technology?</h3><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Do you enjoy working with a diverse multi-national team of engineering talents?</strong></p><h3>Join our Data Engineering Team!</h3><p>The Data Engineering team is part of Cloud Technology Group, which delivers cutting-edge cloud and edge networking solutions to the market. We design, implement, deploy and operate data streaming platforms with a primary mission to enable product teams to develop high-performing operationally safe and secure products in an agile manner.</p><h3>Make a difference to our business</h3><p>As a Senior Software Engineer, you will join a team of software and platform engineers. Your team will enhance platform core services and will design and develop DevOps tools for managing. 100% availability and three 9's performance and reliability data streaming platform.</p><p>As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:</p><ul><li class="lst">Contributing to the design and implementation of highly available, scalable, and performant solutions</li><li class="lst">Building integrating, supporting and improving data streaming services on Akamai Platform with focus on systems for collecting and analyzing performance metrics</li><li class="lst">Designing and developing DevOps tools to make the software delivery system run seamlessly</li><li class="lst">Developing processes and tools to monitor, analyze, maintain and improve streaming data pipelines usability and observability</li><li class="lst">Developing and implementing procedures for automating operational tasks, streamlining day-to-day work to achieve zero human engagement paradigm</li></ul><h3>Do what you love</h3><h3>To be successful in this role you will:</h3><ul><li class="lst">Have relevant experience and a Bachelor diploma in Computer Science or another related field or its equivalent.</li><li class="lst">Have experience (+5) with distributed systems, Linux networking, TCP/IP, SSH, SSL, and HTTP protocols</li><li class="lst">Have experience (+3) in DevOps practices and CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Helm, Ansible, Terraform, Puppet</li><li class="lst">Have experience (+3) with Observability, Performance Analytics, Security tools like Prometheus and DataDog</li><li class="lst">Have experience with big data platforms like Hadoop and Spark; design principles</li><li class="lst">Demonstrate skills in bash scripting, SQL and REST API design; able to troubleshoot complex production issues</li></ul><h3>Work in a way that works for you</h3><p>FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised).