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Senior Product Architect
Overview
A product architect creates the end to end architecture for new products or features, defining both technical and user aspects of the product. As a product architect you will be involved in improving our Bot Manager product line, from the point of feature inception, help shape the product, define how it works internally and externally and follow through until release and after. You will be working with Product Managers, R&D, Support, InfoSec, and other teams to meet their requirements, define what needs to change and present.
A product architect creates the end to end architecture for new products or features, defining both technical and user aspects of the product. As a product architect you will be involved in improving our Bot Manager product line, from the point of feature inception, help shape the product, define how it works internally and externally and follow through until release and after. You will be working with Product Managers, R&D, Support, InfoSec, and other teams to meet their requirements, define what needs to change and present.
This position will offer the opportunity to be part of the highly motivated team that works on software running on one of the largest distributed systems in the world. You will be an integral part of our aggressive growth strategy for creating highly innovative security products for the Internet scale, making our products more reliable, secure and faster.
About the Team
Our team is part of the highly successful Web Security organization which is responsible for design and development of technology that helps customers to protect their web sites and secure the transactions over the web. Our products include Kona Site Defender, Bot Manager, Kona DDoS Defender, Fast DNS, Client Reputation, Siteshield among others. We have a proven record of delivering the best in class security products and experience to Akamai’s customers.
Responsibilities:
• Define end to end high level, cross team and cross functional architecture for new features
• Present and defend architectural, design and technical choices.
• Discuss product features with customers.
• Provide leadership and participate in design and development of complex, high performance enterprise applications.
• Define enterprise server patterns and advocate consistency across the suite of applications.
• Provide mentorship, coordination and guidance for application developers.
• Perform peer design and code reviews.
• Evangelize and mentor peers on enterprise application development strategies, technologies, techniques, tools and guidelines. Guide the adoption of new technologies.
• Work with team members to aid in setting the direction and development of server side components for high-use complex applications.
Our team is part of the highly successful Web Security organization which is responsible for design and development of technology that helps customers to protect their web sites and secure the transactions over the web. Our products include Kona Site Defender, Bot Manager, Kona DDoS Defender, Fast DNS, Client Reputation, Siteshield among others. We have a proven record of delivering the best in class security products and experience to Akamai’s customers.
Responsibilities:
• Define end to end high level, cross team and cross functional architecture for new features
• Present and defend architectural, design and technical choices.
• Discuss product features with customers.
• Provide leadership and participate in design and development of complex, high performance enterprise applications.
• Define enterprise server patterns and advocate consistency across the suite of applications.
• Provide mentorship, coordination and guidance for application developers.
• Perform peer design and code reviews.
• Evangelize and mentor peers on enterprise application development strategies, technologies, techniques, tools and guidelines. Guide the adoption of new technologies.
• Work with team members to aid in setting the direction and development of server side components for high-use complex applications.
Required Education and Experience:
Applicants must meet one of the following education and experience requirements:
• 10+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree in CS or equivalent or
• 7+ years of relevant experience and a Master’s degree in CS or equivalent
Required Qualifications:
• 5+ years of software architecture and design experience
• 4+ years of experience working with large scale distributed software systems (i.e. “the cloud”)
• 4+ years of experience in web based products
• 3+ years of experience with common application security issues and remediation
• 2+ years in a role where customer interaction was required
• 2+ years in a technical leadership, management, or business oriented role
Desired Qualifications:
• Work experience in application security products
• Strong written and verbal communication and consensus-building skills
• Experience in and commitment to agile software delivery principles and practices
• Strong critical and analytical thinking skills sufficient to solve complex design problems and ongoing issues
• Knowledge of Javascript, Python and Java
Applicants must meet one of the following education and experience requirements:
• 10+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree in CS or equivalent or
• 7+ years of relevant experience and a Master’s degree in CS or equivalent
Required Qualifications:
• 5+ years of software architecture and design experience
• 4+ years of experience working with large scale distributed software systems (i.e. “the cloud”)
• 4+ years of experience in web based products
• 3+ years of experience with common application security issues and remediation
• 2+ years in a role where customer interaction was required
• 2+ years in a technical leadership, management, or business oriented role
Desired Qualifications:
• Work experience in application security products
• Strong written and verbal communication and consensus-building skills
• Experience in and commitment to agile software delivery principles and practices
• Strong critical and analytical thinking skills sufficient to solve complex design problems and ongoing issues
• Knowledge of Javascript, Python and Java