Principal Software Engineer

About this role

Do you have a passion for making systems run as efficiently as possible?

Do you want to work with an amazing global team of innovators?

Join the Akamai Object Storage team!

As part of Akamai's Cloud Compute team, we enable customers to connect their on-premise or cloud infrastructure to the Akamai Connected Cloud, by improving the platform's IP addressing and building products to integrate better into data centers and other public clouds. This role offers a unique opportunity to write production-quality software in the networking domain.

Partner with the best

As part of our team, you will focus on building highly reliable, scalable and cost-effective storage solutions. Our platform empowers enterprises to create modern solutions to the world's problems.

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

• Getting in early on an exceptionally rare and impactful project
• Owning the architecture and technical direction of a platform built to scale
• Working day-to-day in a close-knit team but part of a wider group to solve our most complex distributed systems challenges
• Weighing the longer-term implications of design decisions, not just the problem in front of you
• Helping the team grow through mentoring, code review, and raising our engineering standards; defining the next generation of cloud tooling
• Working to define the next generation of cloud tooling

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Bring at least 10 years of professional software engineering experience; relevant experience and education in Computer Science or a related field.
• Have deep, proven professional experience in Go (experience with C++ is a welcome bonus, but not required).
• Have solid experience building high-performance, reliable systems (profiling, concurrency, memory/latency optimization and performance debugging).
• Show a proven track record of designing and improving complex distributed systems, including the architecture ...