Software Engineer Job

Akamai(R) is the leading content delivery network (CDN) providing cloud services that help deliver, optimize, and secure online content and business applications. At the foundation of Akamai solutions, the Akamai Intelligent Platform™ enables unmatched speed, reliability, and security–backed by expertise and relentless innovation–to improve reach and invisibility across the web.

Interested in developing custom command-line and web-based tools for high-profile operations projects? Seeking to overcome scalability challenges for maintaining thousands of servers? Wanting to work with a team of bright, motivated, and experienced engineers? Akamai System Operations may be what you’ve been looking for. The ideal candidate is highly motivated to design and develop innovative solutions using Python, Perl, SQL and handful of other languages for supporting projects. This engineer should take pride in writing maintainable and highly reliable code. This person should be able to understand the big picture of the system and be able to solve complicated problems within that system. This person will work closely with other team members and various groups throughout the company and should be able to conduct design and code reviews. As a senior engineer, the candidate will also provide guidance to less experienced developers.

* Create new tools from scratch, enhance existing tools and optimize existing functionality, from conception and design through testing and deployment. * Work on projects that improve the efficiency and safety of operational workflows. * Work to understand, explain and improve complicated code bases. * Assist less experienced developers to ensure quality solutions are implemented

**Basic Qualifications** * Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent experience. * Minimum of 2 years development experience on Linux/ Unix platforms * Minimum of 2 years experience with programming in Python and/or Perl * Minimum of 2 years experience developing code used in production **Desired Qualifications** * Proven track record of delivering high quality, complex code. * Highly responsible, self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, able to work with little or no supervision. * Extensive experience working on multiple projects at a time in a fast paced, results oriented environment. * Excellent written and verbal communications skills. * Experience working with Internet protocols including TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS. * Development experience with Object-Relational Mappers (ORM) such as SQLAlchemy