Akamai Senior C Low-Level Engineer - 

Israel 

342728899

You will spend most time developing our agent's netfilter-based kernel module for Linux and WFP-based kernel-mode driver for Windows. The driver is written in C, and the tests for it are written in C and Python.

In this role you will be:

• Enforcing the highest standards for code quality and stability, including code review and several kinds of automated tests.
• Optimizing a lot of emphasis on performance, hooking single packets, which is in the nanosecond scale, requires performance-boosting projects whenever our customers' demands scale up.
• Researching what is possible and how, by poring over the Linux kernel source code.
• Reading the Windows kernel documentation through and through (and reverse-engineering Windows whenever the documentation is missing or lying).
• Debugging the toughest and most customer-critical bugs.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• 5 years experience in system programming in C.
• Experience in the low-level / OS internals of either Windows or Linux.
• Experience in networking, especially layers 3-7: From theoretical understanding of TCP/IP to practical development with sockets.
• Experience in debugging complex problems in low-level / OS internals code.

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.