Senior Software Engineer
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Senior Software Engineer building Akamai’s cloud compute fleet automation platform. Designing microservices, host software, and automated testing for large-scale workloads.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and scale a Fleet Operations Platform for thousands of compute machines and millions of customer workloads
- Provide technical expertise and leadership for the team
- Work on software running on hosts in Akamai data centers
- Continuously improve internal processes and systems
- Develop thorough, largely automated functional and regression test suites for fault tolerance and error handling
- Troubleshoot upgrade failures, diagnose performance bottlenecks, and resolve edge cases across the hypervisor and Linux host stack
Requirements:
- Extensive, relevant experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- Proficiency in Python or Go for backend automation
- Experience with REST APIs and CLI scripting
- SQL database experience for state and metadata tracking
- Experience designing, building, and scaling microservices architectures in production environments
- Experience with Linux-based operating systems, virtualization, KVM, and live migrations
- Experience evaluating data using statistics
- Troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills
- Ability to discuss abstract software architectures from ideas through implementation
- Ability to creatively apply domain experience to solve technical challenges
- Ability to collaborate and perform joint problem-solving within an agile/Scrum environment
Benefits:
- Health, well-being, financial, and life-support benefits
- FlexBase flexible workplace options: work at home, in an office, or a combination of both

















