Principal Software Engineer: Platform & Architecture Lead (Remote)

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); On-site; USD 186,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K

PTO

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is hiring for a Principal Software Engineer in Cambridge, MA. You will design subsystems, organize large codebases, and lead reviews to ensure production-quality software.

The role emphasizes performance improvements, automation, and collaboration with QA and stakeholders. The ideal candidate has a Master’s degree or equivalent with 6+ years of experience (or a Bachelor’s with 8+ years).

Qualifications

• 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 closely related engineering role.
• Alternatively, employer will accept Bachelor'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 eight (8) years of experience in the job offered or closely related engineering role.
• Must have one (1) year of experience with: highly available web content management solutions including SDL, Tridion, WorldServer, KnowledgeCenter, Marketo, Cast Iron, and Informatica.
• front and back-end web development in HTML, CSS, Javascript, JSP, ASPX, JSON, REST, .NET, Java, and XML.
• Windows Server 2012 and Linux administration.
• enterprise content management best practices.
• designing and implementing workflow automation, segmentation rules, application integration, and database design.
• IIS, Apache, HTTP webservers, and Tomcat.
• Agile software development methodology including Jira, Git, Jenkins, and testing automation.

Responsibilities

• Design entire software subsystems or groups of components.
• Organize large bodies of code to simplify maintenance and streamline complication.
• Implement code so that incremental performance improvements will not require extensive rework.
• Take a lead role in code reviews to ensure systems are evaluated holistically.
• Develop conventions and processes to improve the efficiency of Akamai development.
• Develop debugging tools or frameworks and advise QA on tools to build to increase productivity.
• Ensure specifications, designs, and implementations take into consideration technical and business aspects of a request while maintaining functionality.
• Guide the process of defining a business problem, refining the request, and articulating a technical solution.
• Determine if large software projects have achieved production quality using objective data measurements.
• Identify when large-scale refactoring is necessary for evolution, advocate for the effort, and articulate benefits.
• Lead, advise, and cooperate with QA on creating test infrastructure and automation.
• Find OS-dependent performance problems and propose global optimizations.
• Telecommuting permitted from anywhere in the United States.

Skills

Web content management

Front-end development

Back-end development

Windows & Linux admin

Agile development

Education

Master's degree in CS/Engineering

Bachelor's degree + 8 years experience

Tools

SDL

Tridion

WorldServer

KnowledgeCenter

Marketo

Cast Iron

Informatica

IIS

Apache

Tomcat

Jira

Git

Jenkins

REST

XML

Java

.NET

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is hiring for a Principal Software Engineer in Cambridge, MA. You will design subsystems, organize large codebases, and lead reviews to ensure production-quality software.

The role emphasizes performance improvements, automation, and collaboration with QA and stakeholders. The ideal candidate has a Master’s degree or equivalent with 6+ years of experience (or a Bachelor’s with 8+ years).