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Job Description – Engineering Manager About the Job The LUNA group is looking for a strong Engineering Manager to lead an engineering team in Bangalore that is responsible for building customer applications on the Akamai Platform. You will work with other engineers, Customer Care group and other groups in Akamai to improve upon existing applications and create new applications for the LUNA Control Center. About the Team LUNA Control Center is Akamai’s main portal. It is the critical system that all of our customers interact with to gather traffic analytics, manage configurations, fetch training and support materials and view their bills. The LUNA group is responsible for the software infrastructure and technical evolution of Luna Control Center. Development engineers in the Portal team execute full lifecycle development of a large-scale multi-tier web application: requirements analysis, application design, implementation and deployment to customer-facing production. Responsibilities: • Recruit, mentor, and lead a large team of talented engineers to their full potential. • Communicate clearly and honestly with internal and external stakeholders about progress, roadblocks, and timelines. • Inspire engineers to work hard, leading by example and keeping enthusiasm high in tight-deadline situations. • Oversee technical scoping and design of projects, ensuring projects deliver the expected value on time. • Handle day-to-day management tasks such as performance reviews, managing time off, and coordinating with Human Resources. • Work closely with management to identify risks, solve problems, and maintain progress. • Foster innovation in the team to develop features that push Akamai’s offerings well beyond those of our competitors. Basic Qualifications • Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field. • Overall experience: 10+ years of software development experience. • Experience managing engineering teams and mission-critical software projects with customer-facing deliverables on tight deadlines. • Experience with the complete software development process. • Experience in J2EE development. Desired Qualifications • Desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, small-team environment. • Experience with cross-platform, multi-browser web app development. • Excellent verbal communication skills. • Strong communication and organizational skills. • Highly responsible, self-disciplined, motivational, creative, and confident. • Web development experience as a senior engineer/architect ideal. • Understanding of Internet protocols, including IP, HTTP, TCP, DNS.
Software Engineer Senior About the Job Akamai is seeking a self-motivated, highly productive software engineer to design and develop its next generation mapping system. An ideal candidate will have strong enterprise application software programming and database experience, demonstrated problem solving abilities, good teamwork and communication skills, and the ability to design powerful yet customer-friendly user interfaces and tools. The day-to-day work of the team encompasses the full engineering cycle: problem formulation, data collection, analysis, algorithm design, code specification, implementation, and evaluation for performance and correctness. The Internet is a complex and noisy environment, and there are no simple answers to the problems the team tackles. This is precisely what makes the job fun and rewarding to anyone seeking a challenge. The job requires a combination of strong coding skills and strong design skills About the Team The Platform Mapping team’s software systems and operational controls direct traffic for Akamai's globally distributed network of servers. This code represents Akamai's 'secret sauce', allowing us to manage our customers. Internet information flows with industry-leading performance and reliability. The Akamai Mapping control system is the heart of the platform used to deliver secure, high-performing services over the Internet to any device, anywhere. It reaches globally and delivers locally, providing the ubiquity required to scale reliably and to adapt quickly to changes. Responsibility • As part of this elite team, you will analyze, design and implement application and system software that brings new functionality, better accuracy, increased reliability, and enhanced scalability to Akamai's mapping control and operation system. • The team relies on the abilities of all its members to develop innovative and elegant solutions. • You must be a self-starter who is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. • You must be able to work collaboratively within the team and with other teams at Akamai. Basic Qualifications • MTech/ME/BTech/BE in Computer Science or related field. • Minimum 6 years’ experience in developing software using PHP/Python and JavaScript. • Through understanding of HTML, CSS, XML and JSON. • 4+ years’ experience in developing Web and CLI application using modern PHP MVC frameworks, preferably Yii. • 4+ years’ experience in developing software on LAMP stacks. • 4+ years in database programming in PHP (MySql/MariaDB/Oracle) including data modeling. • 3+ years’ experience in REST (Web Services) API Development. • 2+ years’ experience in Unit testing web applications. Desired Qualification • Experience developing database applications using SQL and object-relational mapping • Experience developing applications using NoSQL databases, Documents Stores, Column based DB is a plus. • Working knowledge of Bash, Perl. • Familiarity with versioning systems. • Knowledge of common Internet protocols (IP, TCP, SSL/TLS, HTTP, DNS, etc.). • Strong design skills and an ability to tackle abstract, ill-defined problems • Ability to work in a small-team environment. • Excellent written and communication skills. • Internet distributed systems experience a plus
