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Required Senior System Software At Akamai

Posted September 6, 2011 · 4 - 8 Years · [email protected]

Organization

Akamai is the leading global service provider for accelerating content and business processes online. Akamai has transformed the Internet from a chaotic network into a predictable, scalable, and secure business platform. Akamai routinely handles 15% of total Internet traffic. The company has created the world's largest and most widely used on-demand distributed computing platform, with more than 14,000 servers in 1,100 networks in 65+ countries.

1,726 organizations have formed trusted relationships with Akamai, improving revenue and reducing costs by maximizing the performance of their online businesses. Akamai's customers include 6 of the top 10 companies from the DJIA, 6 of the top 10 agencies on the Keynote Government 40 index, and many Fortune 500 companies. In India, Akamai's customers include Rediff.com, Sify.com, NDTV, FabMall, Indiatimes, amongst others. The company's strong partner ecosystem includes IBM and EDS, as well as Web-hosting companies, systems integrators, Web developers, software and hardware vendors, and network providers.

Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai's industry-leading services, matched with world-class customer care, are used by hundreds of today's most successful enterprises and government agencies around the globe. In India, Akamai's office is located in Bangalore.

Role

Designation     Senior System Software - High Performance Computing

Job Description     

About the Job

In this role, you'll design, implement and deploy software on a massively distributed network that collects and processes a
uniquely huge volume of activity data. You'll work on some of the world's most complex and interesting software processing
scalability projects.

The ideal candidate will be highly motivated to design and develop innovative solutions via performance optimized code in C
or C++. This person takes pride in writing maintainable and highly reliable code. This person should be able to understand
the big picture of the product and improve performance and reliability of various system resources. This person will work
closely with many other internal teams inside the company and should be able to conduct design and code reviews.

About the Team

The analytics engineering team is responsible for building a number of systems for analyzing the Akamai network. The award
winning Media Analytics product was developed completely by this team. The platform team within Analytics engineering is

responsible for some of the critical blocks of the software infrastructure. The team is responsible for software development

on a large-scale distributed network that processes billions of records every day to create valuable reports on internet

activity. We are tasked with designing and implementing a fault-tolerant and highly scalable system that must continue to run
even in the presence of architectural level evolution.

Responsibilities:

 Create new features from scratch, enhance existing features and optimize existing functionality, from conception and design
through testing and deployment.

 Work on projects that make our network more stable, faster, and secure.

 Work with our development QA and system QA teams to come up with regression tests that cover new changes to our software.

 Work with our 3rd level engineering support to troubleshoot complex problems our network for our customers.

Desired Profile     

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications

 Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent experience.

 4+ years of experience with C and / or C++ on Linux or a Unix based OS.

 2+ years of strong expertise with building scalable multi-threaded server applications.

 Should have worked on Hadoop and contributed to development of open source solutions.

 Should have project experience on large scale distributed systems.

Desired Qualifications

 Proven track record of delivering large amounts of high quality, complex code.

 Highly responsible, self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, able to work with little or no supervision.

 Extensive experience working on multiple projects at a time in a fast paced, results oriented environment.

 Excellent written and verbal communications skills.

 Experience with operating system internals and distributed systems, or server architectures.

Experience     4 - 8 Years

Industry Type     IT-Software/ Software Services

Role     Team Lead/Tech Lead

Functional Area     System Programming

Education     UG - B.Tech/B.E. - Computers

PG - M.Tech - Computers

Location     Bengaluru/Bangalore

Keywords     Hadoop performance tuning, Analytics Framework, Distributed Systems

Contact     Arun Kumar K

Akamai Technologies

Telephone     080-66251600

Email     [email protected]

Website     http://www.akamai.com

Contact

Arun Kumar K

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