Principal Software Engineer

🕒 February 17

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Akamai Technologies

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5001 - 10000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

🏢 Enterprise

📱 Media

Cybersecurity • Enterprise • Media

Akamai Technologies is a global edge platform and cloud services company that delivers content delivery, edge computing, and security solutions. The company operates one of the world’s largest distributed networks to accelerate and protect web, media, and application traffic, offering products for content delivery, DDoS protection, API and app security, bot management, edge compute (serverless/edge functions), and AI inference at the edge. Akamai also provides enterprise-focused security services (zero trust, identity and access management, secure internet access) and cloud/AI infrastructure tools, and has recently expanded capabilities through acquisitions (for example LayerX) to add browser-based AI usage control.

📋 Description

• Architecting and overseeing the delivery of highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and performant systems across complex projects as well as contributing to them • Leading integration and enhancement of data streaming services on Akamai Platform with an emphasis on large-scale performance analytics • Directing development of next-generation DevOps automation tools to optimize delivery pipelines and operational excellence • Driving automation initiatives to achieve operational workflows, minimizing manual interventions • Establishing enterprise-level observability and monitoring frameworks to drive proactive system insights and continuous improvements

🎯 Requirements

• Have relevant experience and a Masters diploma in Computer Science or another related field or its equivalent • Have experience (+12) in software development with Golang, Python, C/C++, or Java (at least 3), demonstrating mastery in multiple languages and complex codebases • Have deep expertise (+10) with distributed systems architecture, Linux networking, TCP/IP, SSH, SSL, HTTP protocols, including designing for extreme scalability and reliability • Have advanced experience (+8) in DevOps practices and CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Helm, Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, with ability to architect and optimize enterprise-wide deployment pipelines • Have extensive experience (+8) with Observability, Performance Analytics, Security tools like Prometheus and DataDog, including building custom monitoring solutions at scale • Have practical experience with big data platforms like Hadoop and Spark; expert-level design principles for handling massive data sets and streaming pipelines • Have expert-level skills in bash scripting, SQL, REST API design, and troubleshooting complex, large-scale, high-availability production environments

🏖️ Benefits

• Your health • Your finances • Your family • Your time at work • Your time pursuing other endeavours