Senior Software Engineer – SSL
Location: US-MA-Cambridge
Posted Date: 1/27/2012
Cost Center: 264
Category: Engineering
ID: 264-321
About the Job
This position will offer the opportunity to work on software that runs one of the largest distributed systems in the world. You will be an integral part of our aggressive growth strategy for creating highly inventive solutions for our customers, driving more and more traffic on the Internet. If you want to work on technology problems that are interesting and challenging, then this is the role for you.
The ideal candidate will be highly motivated to design and develop innovative solutions via multi-threaded code in C or C++. This person takes pride in writing maintainable and highly reliable code. This person should be able to understand the big picture of the product and improve performance and reliability of various system resources. This person will work closely with many other internal teams inside the company and should be able to conduct design and code reviews.
About the Team
The Cloud Platforms Engineering team has responsibility for the technologies that power our Site and Acceleration Products, including Dynamic Site Accelerator, IP and Web Application Accelerator, Edge Computing, Mobile Optimization, and Edge Tokenization for Payment Services. These systems improve the speed and reliability of thousands of web sites and applications that include large amounts of dynamic content. In addition, this group is building unique technology that can secure the cloud and make it a safe place to do millions of transactions. Akamai has built a massive global distributed network that can solve problems at a scale that few others can approach. By leveraging our deployment of servers around the world, we can uniquely solve technology problems with innovative solutions that exceed the fundamental limitations of networking.
Responsibilities:
– Create new features from scratch, enhance existing features and optimize the existing functionality, from conception and design through testing and deployment.
– Work on projects that make our network more stable, faster, and secure.
– Work with our development QA and system QA teams on coming up with regression tests that cover new changes to our software.
– Work with our 3rd level engineering support to troubleshoot complex problems on our network for our customers.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications
– Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent experience.
– 5+ years of experience with C and / or C++ on Linux or a Unix based OS.
– 2+ years of development experience with data security services in the areas of key management, encryption, and implementing applications or APIs that use PKCS.
– 5+ years of working with Internet protocols including TCP/IP.
– 5+ years of experience with building scalable multi-threaded server applications.
Desired Qualifications
– Proven track record of delivering large amounts of high quality, complex code.
– Highly responsible, self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, able to work with little or no supervision.
– Extensive experience working on multiple projects at a time in a fast paced, results oriented environment.
* Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
– Deep understanding of OpenSSL and TLS and knowledge in Symmetric and Asymmetric Keys as well as Encryption algorithms.
– Experience with operating system internals and distributed systems, or server architectures.
– Knowledgeable with the regulations such as PCI Compliance and overall technology trends in the areas of data security, privacy and confidentiality.
Other Information
– Is relocation available for this position: No
– Is US Citizenship required: No
– Is a Security Clearance Required: No
About Akamai:
No one carries more of the world's Web traffic than Akamai, so working with Akamai means you’re helping some of the world’s best known brands succeed in bringing any experience to any device, anywhere. Cloud computing, SaaS, eCommerce, online entertainment and dynamic personalized experiences are all fueled by Akamai technology. Join Akamai and you join a culture that’s extremely intelligent, strongly supportive and passionately committed to delivering world-class solutions. Some of the best minds in business, mathematics, and engineering work at Akamai – leading, learning and shaping the future of the Internet.
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