Senior Linux Performance Engineer: High-Impact Systems

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 146,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

FlexBase program

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior II Software Engineer for the Linux Performance team to improve the performance and efficiency of Akamai's Intelligent Platform. The role requires strong design, programming, debugging skills, and a passion for fast, correct work.

Expect to analyze performance, implement enhancements, and contribute to hardware-related initiatives while building metrics and tooling that quantify system behavior.

Qualifications

• 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
• Experience with Linux kernel and system architectures.
• Proficiency in C and at least one of Rust, Python, Bash, or Perl.

Responsibilities

• Analyze system performance and identify optimization opportunities.
• Design and implement performance enhancements and new features.
• Participate in hardware/server bring-up and productization.
• Extend metrics collection and create visualizations.
• Build tooling to detect performance issues quickly.

Skills

C programming

Rust

Python

Bash

Perl

Linux kernel

System performance analysis

Concurrency

Algorithms & data structures

PCIe / CXL / CCIX / USB

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Qemu

KVM

perf

bcc tools

BPF

GPGPU/GPU debugging

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior II Software Engineer for the Linux Performance team to improve the performance and efficiency of Akamai's Intelligent Platform. The role requires strong design, programming, debugging skills, and a passion for fast, correct work.

Expect to analyze performance, implement enhancements, and contribute to hardware-related initiatives while building metrics and tooling that quantify system behavior.