<p><b>Are you excited by the prospect of creating algorithms that steer large portions of the Internet's traffic?</b></p><p align="center"><b>Would you like the opportunity to create a seamless internet experience for our end users?</b></p><p><b>Join our exciting and prestigious Mapping Engineering team</b></p><p>Join Akamai's prestigious Mapping Engineering team, where we build the core traffic-steering systems behind Akamai's Intelligent Platform. Our software measures and models the global Internet, then directs traffic across Akamai's worldwide network of servers. These systems help customers deliver digital experiences with industry-leading performance, reliability, and scale.</p><h3>Partner with the best</h3><p>In this role, you'll develop software that will improve the speed, reliability and security of web experiences all over the world. You will work collaboratively within your team and with other teams at Akamai.</p><p>As a Software Engineer II, you will be responsible for:</p><ul><li class="lst">Analyzing, designing, and implementing systems software that brings new functionality and increased accuracy, reliability and performance to our mapping system</li><li class="lst">Evolving complex algorithms to best respond to unpredictable traffic patterns on the global Internet</li><li class="lst">Improving the scalability, robustness, and ease of use of our software systems for testing, deployment, monitoring and maintenance</li><li class="lst">Becoming a subject matter expert for our systems, explaining and improving our software, and assisting with troubleshooting</li><li class="lst">Measuring, assessing, and tuning the effects of our global control systems</li></ul><h3>Do what you love</h3><h3>To be successful in this role you will:</h3><ul><li class="lst">Have 2 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent experience</li><li class="lst">Demonstrate solid experience working in C/C++ or another object-oriented language</li><li class="lst">Have experience developing, analyzing or improving algorithms.</li><li class="lst">Be comfortable solving complex technical problems collaboratively</li><li class="lst">Be curious, adaptable, and eager to learn new technologies.</li><li class="lst">Be familiar with the Linux operating system and scripting languages (e.g. Python, shell, perl)</li></ul><h3>About us</h3><p>At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.<br>Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.</p><h3>Our focus is simple:</h3><p><b>Cloud and Edge:</b> Running apps closer to users for instant performance.<br><b>Security</b>: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your dat