Would you enjoy protecting the world's leading brands?
Do you enjoy problem-solving and coding in a scalable environment?
Join our highly skilled Microsegmentation Engineering Team
Our team is part of the Enterprise Security Engineering (ESG) organization and the AI Engineering group. We build microsegmentation capabilities that control and limit how systems communicate within our customers' environments, helping prevent attacks from spreading inside the network. In addition to developing core product capabilities, our team is responsible for driving innovation, proposing initiatives, and building AI-powered solutions that are deployed in real production systems.
Partner with the best
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and optimize large-scale, distributed solutions. You'll work on new features from idea to production and solve complex engineering problems in a highly collaborative environment.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Collaborating with stakeholders from across the organization
- Overseeing the development of features from design to implementation
- Breaking down large features into incremental deliverables, driving both execution and vision
- Serving as a role model for other engineers by developing high-quality code
- Balancing hands-on engineering with technical leadership through design/code reviews and mentoring
- Leveraging AI and modern engineering practices to accelerate the pace of development
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- Demonstrate extensive backend engineering expertise using Python.
- Design and maintain production-grade services within distributed environments to ensure reliability, scalability, and optimal performance.
- Work with Python, Kubernetes, SQL, NoSQL databases, and continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines effectively and efficiently.
- Decompose complex tasks into clear, actionable steps while ensuring clarity and precision in defining work items.
- Demonstrate technical expertise while maintaining a strategic perspective to effectively address complex challenges and drive impactful outcomes.
- Build applications using Rust; experience in this area is a valuable addition to the role.
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.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- Extensive backend engineering expertise using Python
- Experience designing and maintaining production-grade services in distributed environments
- Experience ensuring service reliability, scalability, and performance
- Proficiency with Kubernetes
- Proficiency with SQL databases
- Proficiency with NoSQL databases
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines
- Ability to decompose complex tasks into clear, actionable steps
- Ability to address complex technical challenges with a strategic perspective
- Rust application development experience
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.
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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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