Principal Software Engineer

Akamai Technologies
Cambridge
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 186,160 - 304,700 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 6-8 yearsEducation: mastersSkills: ["Leadership","Code review","Problem-solving","Collaboration","Technical communication"]

Design and lead complex software subsystems, organizing large codebases for maintainability and incremental performance improvements without extensive rework. Own holistic code reviews and establish engineering conventions, processes, and debugging tools that boost developer and QA productivity. Translate business problems into technical solutions, evaluate production quality with objective metrics, and identify when large refactoring is needed while driving global optimizations for OS-dependent performance issues.

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Akamai Technologies
Akamai Technologies
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Principal Software Engineer

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Job Summary

Design and lead complex software subsystems, organizing large codebases for maintainability and incremental performance improvements without extensive rework. Own holistic code reviews and establish engineering conventions, processes, and debugging tools that boost developer and QA productivity. Translate business problems into technical solutions, evaluate production quality with objective metrics, and identify when large refactoring is needed while driving global optimizations for OS-dependent performance issues.
Location: Cambridge
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design entire software subsystems or groups of components and organize large bodies of code for simpler maintenance and streamlined complexity.
  • •Implement software so that incremental performance improvements do not require extensive rework; take a lead role in code reviews evaluating systems holistically.
  • •Develop engineering conventions, processes, and debugging tools/frameworks; advise QA on tools to build to increase productivity.
  • •Guide defining business problems, refining requests, and articulating technical solutions; ensure designs and implementations balance technical and business aspects while maintaining functionality.
  • •Determine production quality using objective measurements, identify when large-scale refactoring is necessary, and lead collaboration with QA on test infrastructure and automation.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 186,160 - 304,700 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health Insurance401kPaid LeaveSick TimeParental LeaveEmployee Assistance

Key Requirements

  • •Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering Science, Information Systems, IT, or Telecommunications, plus six (6) years of experience in the job offered or a closely related engineering role.
  • •Alternatively, employer will accept Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in the listed fields, plus eight (8) years of experience in the job offered or a closely related engineering role.
  • •One (1) year experience with highly available web content management solutions including SDL, Tridion, WorldServer, KnowledgeCenter, Marketo, Cast Iron, and Informatica.
  • •One (1) year experience with front- and back-end web development including HTML, CSS, Javascript, JSP, ASPX, JSON, REST, .NET, Java, and XML.
  • •One (1) year experience with Windows Server 2012 and Linux administration; designing and implementing workflow automation, segmentation rules, application integration, database design; IIS, Apache, HTTP webservers, Tomcat; and Agile development with Jira, Git, Jenkins, and testing automation.
Experience:6-8 years
Education:Master's
Skills:LeadershipCode reviewProblem-solvingCollaborationTechnical communication
Tech Stack:SDLTridionWorldServerKnowledgeCenterMarketoCast IronInformaticaHTMLCSSJavascriptJSPASPXJSONRESTVB.NET.NETJavaXMLWindows Server 2012Linux

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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