Principal Software Engineer

About the Position

Job Title: Principal Software Engineer

Work Location: 145 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is hiring for the following role in Cambridge, MA (multiple openings): Principal Software Engineer. Design entire software subsystems or groups of components. Organize large bodies of code to simplify maintenance and streamline complication. Implement code so that incremental performance improvements will not require extensive rework. Take a lead role in code reviews to ensure systems are evaluated holistically. Develop conventions and processes to improve the efficiency of Akamai development. Develop debugging tools or frameworks and advise QA on tools to build to increase productivity. Ensure specifications, designs, and implementations take into consideration technical and business aspects of a request while maintaining functionality. Guide the process of defining a business problem, refining the request, and articulating a technical solution. Determine if large software projects have achieved production quality using objective data measurements. Identify when large-scale refactoring is necessary for evolution, advocate for the effort, and articulate benefits. Lead, advise, and cooperate with QA on creating test infrastructure and automation. Find OS-dependent performance problems and propose global optimizations. Telecommuting permitted from anywhere in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Design entire software subsystems or groups of components.
• Organize large bodies of code to simplify maintenance and streamline complication.
• Implement code so that incremental performance improvements will not require extensive rework.
• Take a lead role in code reviews to ensure systems are evaluated holistically.
• Develop conventions and processes to improve the efficiency of Akamai development.
• Develop debugging tools or frameworks and advise QA on tools to build to increase productivity.
• Ensure specifications, designs, and implementations take into consideration technical and business aspects of a request while maintaining functionality.
• Guide the process of defining a business problem, refining the request, and articulating a technical solution.
• Determine if large software projects have achieved production quality using objective data measurements.
• Identify when large-scale refactoring is necessary for evolution, advocate for the effort, and articulate benefits.
• Lead, advise, and cooperate with QA on creating test infrastructure and automation.
• Find OS-dependent performance problems and propose global optimizations.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering Science, Information Systems, IT, or Telecommunications, plus six (6) years of experience in the job offered or closely related engineering role.
• Alternatively, employer will accept Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering Science, Information Systems, IT, or Telecommunications, plus eight (8) years of experience in the job offered or closely related engineering role.
• Must have one (1) year of experience with: highly available web content management solutions including SDL, Tridion, WorldServer, KnowledgeCenter, Marketo, Cast Iron, and Informatica; front and back-end web development in HTML, CSS, Javascript, JSP, ASPX, JSON, REST,.NET, Java, and XML; Windows Server 2012 and Linux administration; enterprise content management best practices; designing and implementing workflow automation, segmentation rules, application integration, and database design; IIS, Apache, HTTP webservers, and Tomcat; and Agile software development methodology including Jira, Git, Jenkins, and testing automation.

Core Skills

• Kubernetes
• cloud-native architectures

We Offer

• Competitive salary ranging from $186,160 to $304,700 per year.
• Telecommuting permitted from anywhere in the United States.
• Comprehensive benefits package including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave, and an employee assistance program focusing on mental and financial wellness.

About the Company

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day. Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:

• Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
• Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
• Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
• AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

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