Do you have a passion for making systems run as efficiently as possible?
Do you want to work with an amazing global team of innovators?
Join the Akamai Object Storage team!
As part of Akamai's Cloud Compute team, we enable customers to connect their on-premise or cloud infrastructure to the Akamai Connected Cloud, by improving the platform's IP addressing and building products to integrate better into data centers and other public clouds. This role offers a unique opportunity to write production-quality software in the networking domain.
Partner with the best
As part of our team, you will focus on building highly reliable, scalable and cost-effective storage solutions. Our platform empowers enterprises to create modern solutions to the world's problems.
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Getting in early on an exceptionally rare and impactful project
- Owning the architecture and technical direction of a platform built to scale
- Working day-to-day in a close-knit team but part of a wider group to solve our most complex distributed systems challenges
- Weighing the longer-term implications of design decisions, not just the problem in front of you
- Helping the team grow through mentoring, code review, and raising our engineering standards; defining the next generation of cloud tooling
- Working to define the next generation of cloud tooling
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Bring at least 10 years of professional software engineering experience; relevant experience and education in Computer Science or a related field.
- Have deep, proven professional experience in Go (experience with C++ is a welcome bonus, but not required).
- Have solid experience building high-performance, reliable systems (profiling, concurrency, memory/latency optimization and performance debugging).
- Show a proven track record of designing and improving complex distributed systems, including the architecture that runs in production on Kubernetes.
- Have familiarity with containers, Kubernetes, serverless computing, and Linux APIs.
- Take a higher-level view when making technical decisions, weighing many inputs and the longer-term implications of each choice.
- Work well with others: collaborative, open-minded, proving a point on its merits. open to solutions, knowledge sharing, mentoring, and curiosity
- Be comfortable working in an Agile development environment (iterative delivery, reviews, planning, and continuous improvement).
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
FlexBase adapts to your job's needs
Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
Compensation
Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from 140,400 - 252,800 CAD/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, RRSP, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.
Skills Required
- At least 10 years of professional software engineering experience; relevant degree or education in Computer Science or related field.
- Deep, proven professional experience in Go.
- Experience with C++.
- Solid experience building high-performance, reliable systems (profiling, concurrency, memory/latency optimization, performance debugging).
- Proven track record designing and improving complex distributed systems, including production architectures on Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with containers.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with serverless computing.
- Familiarity with Linux APIs.
- Experience mentoring, performing code reviews, and raising engineering standards.
- Comfortable working in an Agile development environment.
- Strong collaboration, communication, and openness to knowledge sharing.
Akamai Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Akamai Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Akamai Technologies.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO in the U.S., wellness days, paid volunteering time, and the FlexBase model contribute to broad time‑off flexibility. These practices are described as supporting strong work‑life balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leaves, paid family care leave, subsidized backup childcare, and inclusive family‑building benefits via Carrot form a comprehensive family support suite. Coverage spans fertility support through caregiving resources.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a substantial company match and immediate vesting, plus Roth and Mega Backdoor Roth options, underpin long‑term savings. These features provide reliable long‑term savings opportunities.
Akamai Technologies Insights
What We Do
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every moment, billions of people, all over the world, are using the internet to shop, play games, look after finances, learn remotely, share videos, connect across the world, and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission, and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges, and turning the impossible into the possible. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Do you want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!
Why Work With Us
Our people are devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence, and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse, and we love to collaborate across the world.
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