Akamai Senior Software Engineer - 

United States 

980789921

Partner with the best

As a Senior Software Engineer you will be responsible for:

• Working on the virtualization stack (QEMU, QAPI, QMP) and VM optimization.
• Participating in all compute product and component design reviews to suggest improvements.
• Researching, proposing, and integrating relevant open-source projects based on product objectives.
• Working on system, network, and cluster performance analysis, including root cause analysis of performance issues using creative experiments and internally developed product features.
• Working on the software running on the hosts in our data centers.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field
• Understand the Linux operating system, the kernel and virtualization.
• Demonstrate your experience with QEMU, CPU Scheduling, Live migrations, memory organization, API, debugging, async IO.
• Be able to write organized, efficient, and well documented C/C++ code.
• Possess a good understanding of storage, networking protocols, and software algorithms in distributed systems, data encoding and transmission, and performance.
• Have the ability to discuss abstract software architectures from ideas through implementation and creatively apply domain experience to solve technical problems.

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.