Akamai Software Engineer Senior Principal Lead - 

United States 

207840130

Shape the future of security products

In this senior technical leader role, you will be building highly scalable, reliable and usable software solutions for bot and abuse detection. Allowing our customers to better manage bot traffic and help improve the internet for millions of people.

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

• Creating and enhancing bot manager detection and features, including conception, design, testing and deployment
• Providing technical leadership across engineering teams to develop, innovate and continually improve product design
• Guiding and performing activities such as design and code reviews, identifying improvements to software quality, performance/integration tests
• Collaborating with Threat Research, Product Management, Architects and Operations teams to drive bot and abuse detection feature from concept to reality
• Analyzing large sets of data to develop and improve malicious bot detection, behavioral authentication and fraud detection

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 12+ years' experience and Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or another related field or its equivalent
• Have experience in designing and developing scalable systems
• Be experienced in Software development, ideally in Python or GoLang
• Have expertise in networking/internet protocols such as TCP/IP , DNS, HTTP/HTTPS and TLS
• Have a well- rounded background in host, network and application security
• Have experience in applying advanced anomaly detection and machine-learning techniques to the security field

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.