Software Engineer Senior (Go)

Job Description

Our team is responsible for supporting, developing and updating our CLI toolkit. This is the best way for our customers who are comfortable working at the command line to directly manage and configure Akamai’s products. We work with the Open-Source community to share support, updates and documentation. As a growing, Agile team you’ll have the opportunity to learn and innovate.

Work with cutting-edge technology

In this newly created, innovative role you will help revolutionize the customer experience for Akamai’s integrated automation products. You will strengthen customer relationships by sharing your technical knowledge of projects with them through a strong presence on GitHub. With many opportunities to grow you’ll be collaborating across teams to create, support and develop the CLI toolkit.

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have experience and knowledge of Object-Oriented programming languages such as Go or Java

• Demonstrate a passion for programming and an interest in learning new programming languages

• Show experience with Docker or similar container technologies such as CoreOS, Mesos or Kubernetes

• Have knowledge developing or contributing to Open-Source products using GitHub or similar

• Display experience working as part of an Agile team when developing products through the Software Development Life Cycle

• Demonstrate a detail-oriented approach with excellent written and verbal communication skills

As a Software Engineer you will be responsible for:

• Developing and unit testing enhancements for our Customers

• Creating open source products

• Clarifying and responding directly to customer inquiries through Akamai’s external GitHub Repository

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

• Occasionally working remotely from home or any other work location

• Working flexible hours balancing flexibility to work around your personal commitments while ensuring availability for customers during working hours

• Please discuss your preferred working patterns with the recruiter during the process

Akamai Technologies

Web Performance & Testing.

Technology we use

Javascript
Python
Java
C
C++
SQL
Go
Perl
React
Git
Bash