Senior Software Engineer - Linux Kernel Development

Are you passionate about the Linux kernel? Want to enable and secure the foundation of Akamai Cloud Platform? Join our Cloud Platform Infrastructure Group - Linux Infrastructure team Our team is part of Cloud Platform Infrastructure Group, developing distributed systems that support Akamai's large global network. At the core of Akamai infrastructure, we work on complex and exciting systems that are available 24/7. Critical to Akamai, our Linux Infrastructure team develops, maintains, and ensures reliability, security, and performance of a custom Linux distribution with Akamai-specific extensions and settings. Build the future through innovation and automation You will be an integral part of a multi-faceted globally-distributed development team that builds, maintains, and improves Akamai's custom Linux kernel. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for: Developing new features to improve performance, reliability, and security of Akamai Cloud Platform Porting existing Akamai modifications to newer versions of Linux kernel Debugging and fixing issues found in a variety of complex test and production environments Enhancing existing build and test automation to facilitate Continuous Testing Collaborating closely with platform and application developer and test teams as well as Akamai hardware development teams Working with the open source community to upstream your work Staying current with upstream Linux kernel and OS changes and emerging industry trends Do what y