Are you excited to work with innovative security products?
Do you enjoy creating innovative and strategic solutions to solve complex problems?
Join our SaaS Platform team
Guardicore (now Akamai!) revolutionizes protection against advanced threats, starting with our people. Our team includes some of the most talented and experienced cybersecurity experts in the field. We seek new people to inspire us, bring fresh ideas, and enhance our capabilities.
What does our team do?
We are looking for a Senior software engineer to join our SaaS platform team.
In this role, you will develop distributed cloud-native applications with a focus on scalability, availability, and security.
You will take part in designing and building microservices, operators, and backend components running on GCP Cloud Run, Kubernetes, and Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE).
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Developing cloud-native microservices and backend components in Golang
- Building and maintaining SaaS infrastructure and services for scale and resiliency
- Working with GCP, Kubernetes, and Linode, including development of Kubernetes operators
- Using Helm, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and other modern tooling to support deployment and automation
- Collaborating with other engineers, architects, and product managers to drive features end-to-end
- Taking ownership of system design decisions and contribute to the long-term technical roadmap
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- 5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
- Have extensive knowledge and experience of GCP stacks, Linux, cloud technologies, and network Infrastructure
- Have experience with CI/CD methodologies and best practices (GitHub/CircleCI Actions)
- Have experience in container technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes
- Demonstrate prior experience building production systems, highly available and service-oriented
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
- 5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
- Develop cloud-native microservices and backend components in Golang
- Extensive knowledge and experience of GCP stacks, Cloud Run, and cloud technologies
- Experience with Kubernetes, including developing Kubernetes operators and Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE)
- Experience with container technologies, including Docker
- Experience with CI/CD methodologies and tooling (GitHub Actions, CircleCI)
- Experience building production, highly available, service-oriented systems
- Knowledge of Linux and network infrastructure
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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