Are you passionate about cutting edge technology?
Do you enjoy working with a diverse multi-national team of engineering talents?
Join our Data Engineering Team!
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.
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.
As a Senior II Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Designing and implementing of scalable, high-availability solutions for data streaming services on the Akamai Platform, focusing on performance metrics.
- Developing DevOps tools to enhance software delivery and automate operational tasks, aiming for a zero human engagement paradigm.
- Creating processes and tools to monitor, analyze, and improve the usability and transparency of streaming data pipelines.
- Developing processes and tools to monitor, analyze, maintain and improve streaming data pipelines usability and observability.
- Supporting team engineers by distributing tasks, directing efforts, supervising implementation progress, and driving troubleshooting when necessary.
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have a M.Sc. in Computer Science or related field.
- Experience (+8) as a system/platform engineer, focusing on cloud.
- Experience (+8) in software development with Golang, Python, C/C++, or Java (at least 2).
- Have experience (+8) with distributed systems, Linux networking, TCP/IP, SSH, SSL, and HTTP protocols.
- Have experience (+5) in DevOps practices and CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Helm, Ansible, Terraform, Puppet.
- Have experience (+5) with Observability, Performance Analytics, Security tools like Prometheus and DataDog.
- Experience with big data platforms like Hadoop and Spark; design principles.
- Demonstrate skills in bash scripting, SQL and REST API design; able to troubleshoot complex production issues.
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). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.
At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.
