Akamai Site Reliability Engineer Senior Lead 

United States, Oregon 

991759005

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