Software Engineer

Job Description:
 

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field plus heavy experience in low-level network programming.
• Mastery of Rust (for DPDK tre_flow), and Go for high-performance networking software.
• Solid understanding of Linux network stack internals, socket layers, and packet processing.

• Network feature development.

   

  Nice to Have Skills

• Experience porting custom network daemons (Goblin, Comet) to new CPU architectures.

   

Job Responsibilities:
 

• Port internal networking daemons and tools (Goblin, Comet, golinject) to run natively on ARM64 host environments.
• Local Environment & Stack Setup: Stand up and maintain a local development environment running the entire Akamai Compute (Linode) stack (e.g., running on a single VM owned by the developer).
• Debugging & ARM Porting: Proactively identify and debug complex issues across the software stack (including VMs, VM disks, and networking), and port existing software stack components to the ARM architecture.
• Network Feature Development: Develop and enhance networking capabilities, including adding support for protocols (such as DHCPv6) into networking daemons and offloading network stack processing into NICs.
• Performance & Profiling: Conduct performance tuning and packet-throughput profiling on high-speed network interfaces.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Proactively flag identified issues and collaborate with other engineering teams to drive resolutions.
   

Department/Project Description:

Seeking a Mid-Level Software Engineer to join the Platform Networking Team. The team builds low-level networking software, driver integrations, and custom daemons powering our data center network fabric. You will port network daemons and enable next-generation SmartNIC and NIC hardware support on our new ARM server fleet.