Senior Software Engineer

Akamai Technologies
Poland
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Senior Software Engineer focusing on SmartNIC/DPU software and hardware for Akamai Cloud. You’ll integrate host and DPU architectures, validate RoCE and virtualization, and drive platform offload and acceleration from concept to mass production, collaborating across kernel, SDN, storage, security, and cloud teams to deliver scalable server platforms.

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Akamai Technologies
Akamai Technologies
8 months ago

Senior Software Engineer

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Job Summary

Senior Software Engineer focusing on SmartNIC/DPU software and hardware for Akamai Cloud. You’ll integrate host and DPU architectures, validate RoCE and virtualization, and drive platform offload and acceleration from concept to mass production, collaborating across kernel, SDN, storage, security, and cloud teams to deliver scalable server platforms.
Location: Poland
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Supporting DPU hardware and software integration into Akamai compute and GPU server platforms, including PCIe, networking, storage, and manageability interfaces.
  • •Executing validation plans for DPU platforms, including functional, performance, interoperability, stress, and reliability testing for data-center-scale use cases.
  • •Implementing and maintaining automation, scripts, and test tooling to exercise DPUs, collect telemetry at scale, and summarize results for stakeholders.
  • •Implementing and validating networking and offload features such as RDMA/RoCE, L2/L3/L4 Ethernet/IP forwarding, SR-IOV/virtio-net/vDPA, overlay networks, and congestion control behaviors.
  • •Collaborating with Kernel, NetEng, SDN, Storage, Security, and Cloud teams to align workloads and SLOs in testing setups and configurations.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceFinancesFamilyTime At

Key Requirements

  • •Have 5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or a related field.
Experience:5+ yearsServer hardwareNetworking hardwareData center
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonBashLinuxPCIeSR-IOVRoCEVXLANBGPRDMAECMP

Company Brief

Akamai Technologies
Provides a global content delivery network (CDN) and cloud services to improve web and application performance, security, and delivery for enterprises, media companies, and cloud providers.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Cambridge, United States
Founded: 1998
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