Are you excited to work with innovative security products at a global scale?
Do you enjoy creating strategic infrastructure solutions to solve complex data challenges?
Join our Team
Akamai's mission is to make digital experiences fast, intelligent, and secure. Our intelligent edge platform extends from the enterprise to the cloud, keeping threats far away. Global brands rely on us for edge security, web performance, and video delivery. Our solutions are backed by unmatched service, analytics, and 24/7/365 monitoring. Together, we accelerate their multi-cloud world and digital future.
What does our team do?
The Identity Engineering team at Akamai delivers zero-trust enterprise security solutions. Our platform offers authentication, multifactor capabilities, and analytics. Integrated with Akamai's global network, it enhances security and user experience. We seek a Senior Software Engineer to develop scalable backend systems, proxies, and load balancers. Contribute to building secure, high-performance digital experiences with us.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Designing and building scalable backend applications for next-generation identity solutions.
- Collaborating with Product Management and engineering teams to deliver high-quality features.
- Conducting design reviews and partnering with QA to deploy production code.
- Collaborating across the organization with Data Science, Product, and Operations to build innovative components of Akamai's Big Data AI solutions.
- Solving complex technical challenges proactively with a high success rate.
- Participating actively in agile SCRUM planning and technical team meetings.
- Optimizing and supporting the continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 5+ years in backend engineering roles, including 3+ years coding in Python, Go, or similar languages.
- 3+ years designing systems, writing/reviewing code, and automating issues within the team's domain.
- 1+ years of experience with RDBMS (PostgreSQL/MySQL), Windows Server, and Active Directory.
- Work with Linux systems and design schemas for both relational and NoSQL databases.
- Understand large-scale production systems, load balancing, monitoring, and distributed systems.
- Demonstrate exceptional communication skills combined with an eagerness to learn new technologies.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to support the production backend effectively.
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
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- 5+ years in backend engineering roles, including 3+ years coding in Python, Go, or similar languages
- 3+ years designing systems, writing/reviewing code, and automating within the team's domain
- 1+ years of experience with RDBMS (PostgreSQL/MySQL), Windows Server, and Active Directory
- Experience working with Linux systems and designing schemas for relational and NoSQL databases
- Understanding of large-scale production systems, load balancing, monitoring, and distributed systems
- Exceptional communication skills and eagerness to learn new technologies
- Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation to support the production backend
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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