Software Development Engineer Test Principal jobs at Akamai

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As a Principal Solutions Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Owning the technical sales lifecycle, including discovery, solution design, and delivery of compelling product demonstrations.
• Translating complex technical concepts into practical/impactful use cases for diverse audiences from technical engineers to C-level executives.
• Serving as the go-to expert on API security for customers, internal teams, and partners.
• Educating sales teams and other stakeholders on API security trends, threats, and best practices.
• Acting as the technical point of contact for customers during their pre-sales journey, ensuring success and satisfaction.
• Gathering customer requirements and work closely with product and engineering teams to align solutions to customer needs.
• Presenting Akamai's API security vision and best practices at industry conferences, webinars, and customer workshops.
• Partnering with sales, product management, and engineering teams to drive alignment and continuously improve the customer experience.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 12yrs of relevant experience and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, or it's equivalent.
• Have excellent knowledge of APIs, API gateways, web application firewalls (WAF), and API security practices.
• Have proven experience in a technical pre-sales, solution architecture, or related role in cybersecurity or API-related fields.
• Display proficiency in internet technologies, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, and RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and more.
• Possess hands-on experience with scripting languages such as Python, JavaScript, or Bash.
• Display familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and cloud-native architectures.
• Have experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications.
• Possess exceptional presentation skills and ability to explain complex concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

If no date is displayed, applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis until the job is filled.

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is hiring for the following role in Cambridge, MA (multiple openings): Site Reliability Engineer. Senior. Perform site reliability software engineering duties in furtherance of ensuring application and network performance, reliability and security for users of our platforms; deploy and operate scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems; analyze and improve the security, stability, speed, and capacity of our network; automate new cloud service deployments; monitor and troubleshoot cloud services to ensure SLA is met and adequate capacity is available; analyze logs and events from the cloud service and providing recommendations to ensure smooth service operation; work within large-scale cloud-based infrastructure; quickly identify and resolve infrastructure issues. Telecommuting permitted from anywhere within the United States.[AG0079]

Required Qualification:

Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, Electronical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Networking, or Telecommunications Engineering, plus six (6) months of experience in the job offered or closely related engineering role. Must have: 6 months of experience with the following: Azure cloud development; Bash; Python; Perl; Dynatrace; and Confluent Kafka.

Drive innovation in Threat Intelligence

As a Software Engineer Senior, you will be responsible for:

• Building and tuning real-time anomaly detection systems using behavioral models, heuristics, and ML
• Designing and maintaining scalable pipelines to process and analyze high-volume network telemetry
• Developing high-performance ClickHouse queries and data models to support threat detection and response workflows
• Contributing services that serve as the backbone of our detection systems
• Collaborating with Security Analysts and Incident Response teams to operationalize threat intelligence
• Experimenting with new models and approaches, performing validation and tuning on live data

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To be successful in this role you will:

• 5+ years of relevant experience and a bachelor's degree in a related field
• Be proficient in Python and Golang for backend engineering, with experience writing scalable and reliable microservices
• Have hands-on experience with ClickHouse or other columnar data stores in real-time analytics use cases
• Demonstrate knowledge of anomaly detection, time-series modeling, and applying machine learning to security problems
• Have experience building containerized microservices and managing them with Kubernetes in production/on-prem environments
• Be familiar with network protocols, common attack patterns, and threat hunting practices
• Possess a deep understanding of distributed systems, observability, and performance tuning

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

If no date is displayed, applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis until the job is filled.

Required Qualification:

Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, or Telecommunications Engineering, plus two (2) years of experience in job offered or closely related engineering roles. Must have: Two (2) years of experience with the following: Java; secure protocols such as TLS or IKE; OpenSSL; internet protocols such as TCP/IP or HTTP; multi-threaded server
applications; and scripting languages such as Python and Perl.

Alternately, employer will accept Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, or Telecommunications Engineering, plus five (5) years of experience in job offered or closely related engineering roles. Must have: Two (2) years of experience with the following: Java; secure protocols such as TLS or IKE; OpenSSL; internet protocols such as TCP/IP or HTTP; multi-threaded server applications; and scripting languages such as Python and Perl.

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As a Software Engineer Senior, you will be responsible for:

• Developing new features and tuning Linux kernel to improve performance, reliability, and security of Akamai Connected Cloud platform.
• Porting existing Akamai modifications to newer versions of Linux kernel.
• Debugging and fixing issues found in a variety of complex test and production environments.
• Enhancing existing build and test automation to facilitate Continuous testing.
• Working with the open source community and upstream your work
• Staying current with upstream Linux kernel and OS changes and emerging industry trends

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
• Have proficiency in software development in C with a focus on Linux kernel development and be proficient in scripting (Perl/Python/Shell).
• Possess good understanding of Linux kernel internals ( KVM, TCP/IP stack, memory management, filesystems, block IO).
• Have knowledge of concurrent programming, data structures, algorithms, complexity analysis, and network protocols (TCP/UDP/IP, Ethernet, QUIC, HTTP/TLS).
• Have experience with Linux kernel debugging.
• Be a motivated self-starter who enjoys collaborating with others but capable of working independently.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

If no date is displayed, applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis until the job is filled.

People who do best are the ones who seek challenges, possess a passion for learning, and have demonstrated ability to pose and solve truly difficult problems. The job requires a combination of system design, programming and debugging skills, an obsession with code quality, and independence. You must have a passion to get things done quickly and get them done right.

As a Software Engineer Principal, you will be responsible for:

• Analyzing system performance, identify problems, design, develop, and implement solutions
• Extending metrics collection and create visualizations to better quantify systems performance
• Building tooling to help identify system performance problems faster
• Training other Akamai engineers to identify performance issues
• Working with teams across the company to implement your solutions

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 5-8 years of relevant software engineering experience
• Have advanced programming experience in C, as well experience in Python, Bash, or Perl
• Possess a comprehensive understanding of Linux operating system internals and kernel interactions
• Have strong experience with complex data structures, algorithms, and optimization techniques
• Have thorough understanding of network protocols including IP, IPv6, TCP, UDP
• Have a proficiency with Git version control system

People who will thrive in this role will have:

• Have an experience with multiple visualization technologies (Qemu, KVM,.)
• Have an expertise with performance analysis and profiling tools like Linux perf, bcc tools, flamegraphs
• Have deep understanding of computer system architectures and hardware/software interfaces
• Have an experience leading small technical projects or mentoring junior engineers
• Have an experience optimizing software for specific hardware architectures

Job Description:

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is hiring for the following role in Cambridge, MA (multiple openings): Software Development Engineer in Test. Principal. Perform system-level tests and develop automation for Akamai’s technologies; Utilize distributed system testing experience as well as technical expertise in UNIX/Linux operating systems and HTTP, DNS, TCP/IL technologies, proxy servers, web servers, and caching technologies; Implement an in-depth understanding of SQA life-cycle from functional requirements gathering to the design and execution of automated, manual, and system level tests; Create, maintain, and execute manual and automated integrated product and system tests to replicate real-world scenarios involving complex distributed systems; Develop creative, competent analyses to identify root causes of technical problems and diagnose and debug issues using network tools; and Review bug descriptions, functional requirements, design documents, and code, as well as work closely with developers to design test criteria, develop test plans, and ensure proper documentation of work. Telecommuting permitted from anywhere in the United States.[AG0431]

Required Qualification:

Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, or Telecommunications Engineering, plus three (3) years of experience in the job offered or closely related engineering role. Must have: Two (2) years of experience with the following: Testing large scale distributed systems; Unix/Linux environments; HTML, XML, SQL, CSS, and Javascript; proxy and web server technology including HTTP, DNS, caching, and TCP/IP protocol stack; and scripting technology such as Perl and Python.

Alternately, employer will accept Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, or Telecommunications Engineering, plus five (5) years of experience in the job offered or closely related engineering role. Must have: Two (2) years of experience with the following: Testing large scale distributed systems; Unix/Linux environments; HTML, XML, SQL, CSS, and Javascript; proxy and web server technology including HTTP, DNS, caching, and TCP/IP protocol stack; and scripting technology such as Perl and Python.

The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits 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 including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.