Senior Software Engineer (Reston or Cambridge)

About this role

Are you passionate about storage systems?

Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?

Join Our Custom Government Engineering Team!

The Custom Government team operates across the full breadth and depth of Akamai's technology stack to design, build, and deliver customized solutions for Public Sector customers. This role partners closely with Operations and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams in a highly collaborative environment to deploy, operate, and continuously improve secure, resilient, and high-performance Application Delivery Networks.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will manage the Akamai cloud storage solution, NetStorage, within the public sector and work closely with various groups to support and improve our existing product offerings. We're seeking an experienced, self-motivated, highly-productive engineer with a solid systems background.This is a fast-paced environment and having solid communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to follow through on assigned tasks are critical for success.

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

• Acting as a lead in design, development, testing, implementation, maintenance, and support of the NetStorage ecosystem.
• Leading integration of NetStorage into Public Sector enterprise environment.
• Researching and implementing new storage features.
• Acting as a technical resource to assist in escalations.
• Working with other internal development teams to solve platform problems.
• Maintaining, enhancing, and developing tools and testing frameworks.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 5 years of related experience and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Have experience with CouchDB, understanding of NoSQL database design, and ability to manage data synchronization.
• Have experience in system administration and software development.
• Have experience in one ...