Senior Software Engineer - Security Product Development

Senior Software Engineer - Security Product Development

Location US-CA-San Mateo
Posted Date 6/25/2013
Cost Center 264 Category Engineering
ID 8579

This position will offer the opportunity to lead the highly motivated team that works 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 networking challenges and for our clients, driving more and more traffic on the Internet, making it more reliable, secure and faster.

The ideal candidate must be very comfortable with and highly motivated by working with C/C++ code bases involving 100,000s lines of very complex multi-threaded networking code. This person takes pride in writing readable, maintainable, and highly reliable code. In fact, he/she considers software engineering and coding a form of art.

This person will work closely with many other teams inside the company such as the Kernel, mapping, performance, Distributed Data Collection, QA, and many other teams.

About the Team

Web Experience security team has responsible for design and development of technology that helps customers to protect their web sites and secure the transactions over the web. Our Kona Web Security product is designed to provide superior cloud computing security, prevent data theft and downtime and mitigate denial of service attacks. 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 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 to come up with regression tests that cover new changes to our software.
- Work with our 3rd level engineering support to troubleshoot complex problems our network for our customers.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 4 years of experience with C and/or C++ on Linux or a Unix based OS.
- Minimum of 4 years of in depth understanding of Internet protocols including TCP/IP, UDP/IP, and HTTP.
- Minimum of 4 years of strong expertise with multi-threaded development.
- Minimum of 4 years of very high coding and technical skills - proven track record of delivering large amounts of high quality, complex code.

Desired Qualifications
- Highly responsible, self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, able to work with little or no supervision.
- Experience in Security product development ( web application Firewall, DDOS mitigation solutions).
- Passion to understand, learn, and dissect new technologies quickly on your own.
- Extensive experience working on multiple projects at a time in a fast paced, results oriented environment.
- Experience with the complete software development life cycle, from requirements to design, implementation, testing, and release.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
- Pluses: XML, Perl, SQL and OpenSSL.

Other Information
- Is relocation available for this position: No
- Is US Citizenship required: No
- Is a Security Clearance Required: No

If yes, applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation & must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

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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