Senior Software Engineer at Akamai
About the role
Responsibilities Design and develop backend compute services and APIs for ARM64 and x86_64 instance management. Expand platform functionality, resource orchestration tools, and APIs for cloud compute provisioning. Provide production support and resolve complex issues affecting low-level compute systems. Partner with hardware and cross-functional teams to integrate ARM server hardware and address performance bottlenecks. Improve compute platform performance, feature sets, multi-core scalability,…
Interview process at Akamai
General interview process (this company's specific loop isn't published - reach out if you have insider info).
- Recruiter phone screen - typically 20-40 min
- Technical screen - 1 coding problem or take-home; format varies by company
- Onsite / virtual loop - typically 4-6 rounds over 2-3 weeks; exact split of coding, systems design, and behavioral varies by role and location
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