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Senior Software Engineer
Overview
We are seeking a passionate, product-focused Senior Software Engineer who thrives on delivering exceptional quality and functionality to customers. The person in this role will be working on services/applications for Akamai’s Identity Cloud product line which is a Customer Identity and Access Management platform (CIAM). In this role you will work closely with the product team, engineering group and management.
As a Senior Software Engineer you will be working on the design, development, documentation, testing, and troubleshooting of new and existing CIAM products. The candidate will also be able to understand the needs of the business, work with highly complex tasks, sometimes loosely defined tasks, and coalesce ambiguous or conflicting requirements.
Qualified candidates will have 5+ years software development experience and be excited to work with a number of programming languages, including Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Scala, and Go.
Responsibilities include:
● Playing a central role in delivering products and services for the Web Security Business.
● Engage with other groups, both internal and external, to bring projects to completion on
time and within budget.
● Work in a highly collaborative team environment developing and maintaining enterprise
SaaS software
● Design and develop highly available and scalable RESTful APIs for new and existing
SaaS services
● Design and develop back-end systems which are responsible for the storage,
transformation, and transport of large data sets
● Collaborate with a cross-functional team including Engineers, Testers, DevOps
Engineers, Product Owners, Project Managers, and Technical Leads
● Write and execute unit and integration tests
● Coordinate with Product Owner in assessing, defining and refining product requirements
● Provide upper-tier technical support for customer issues
● Create design specifications and demonstrate solutions with detailed documentation,
flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, and charts
About the Team
Our team is part of the Web Division, which has responsibility for the technologies that power our Security Products. These include Identity Cloud, Kona Site Defender, Edge Tokenization,
Web Application Firewall and Siteshield. These provide distributed protection from both DDoS and application specific web attacks with on-demand scalability. Akamai’s global footprint of over 100,000 servers provides an overlay network with scale and capacity to not just deliver the largest web events but also secure the largest Internet brands from attack. The team builds and extends Akamai’s highly fault-tolerant wide area distributed content delivery and application acceleration systems to improve performance, security, reliability and availability of high value websites. Akamai powers over 85% of the top online retailers, with over $100 billion in combined annual revenue.
Qualifications
Required Education and Experience
Applicants must meet one of the following education and experience requirements:
● 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree or
● 3 years relevant experience and a Master’s degree
Required Skills
● Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
● 5+ years of experience designing software in an object-oriented environment
● 3+ years of experience with development in 2 programming languages and eager to learn others
● 3+ years of experience with command-line utilities such as bash, grep, ssh,
● 3+ years of experience with version control systems such as svn, mercurial, git, etc. (we use git)
● 3+ years of experience with distributed databases
● 3+ years of experience building SOAP and/or REST web services
● 3+ years of experience implementing cloud-based architectures
Desired Skills
● Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
● Excellent written and verbal communication skills
● Experience building mobile applications for iOS and Android
● Experience building scalable applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
● Experience using JIRA for issue tracking
● Experience with Agile software methodologies such as SCRUM and Kanban
● Familiarity with the OpenID and OAuth specifications
● Experienced / hands on with enterprise-level SaaS software concepts including services-oriented architecture, high availability, scalability, maintainability, concurrency, and distributed computing
● Familiarity with software testing concepts including unit testing, functional testing, regression testing, continuous integration testing, and performance testing