Are you excited by the prospect of working with prestigious global brands?
Do you enjoy working with customers to solve complex technical problems?
Join our Custom Development Team
We are a team of talented and experienced cybersecurity software developers. We create tools, processes, and knowledge to help our customers and internal teams extend our core product's features and usability. We are constantly on the lookout for new people to inspire us and make us better.
Collaborate with the best-known global brands
You will work with an innovative technology redefining how organizations protect their key applications and assets from advanced cyber threats.
As a Senior Software Engineer Team Lead, you will be responsible for:
- Leading and mentoring a team of software engineers in designing and developing custom tools and integrations.
- Interacting with customers to gather and understand their requirements.
- Overseeing project delivery and ensuring technical excellence across the team's output
- Coordinating with customers and internal stakeholders to gather requirements and define technical roadmaps.
- Driving architectural decisions and proposing scalable solutions for complex technical problems.
- Fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth within the development team.
- Collaborating with R&D and Product teams to align custom solutions with the core of Professional Service product strategy.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- 5 years of hands-on software development experience, covering the entire software development life cycle.
- Lead and supervise effectively; mentor software teams or manage projects, overseeing developers' work with prior relevant experience essential.
- Have a deep background in Python development and technical project leadership.
- Oversee and implement large-scale, complex software project designs with demonstrated expertise in managing intricate development processes effectively.
- Develop expertise in creating and maintaining REST APIs effectively for seamless integration and reliable functionality across diverse systems and applications.
- Demonstrate exceptional communication abilities and effectively manage relationships with stakeholders.
- Demonstrate expertise in customer collaboration, resolving intricate issues, shaping development workflows, and upholding code quality via collaborative reviews.
- Have expertise in Django, Networking, Operating Systems, Angular, ServiceNow, CMDB tools, and deploying or operating security software or networking equipment.
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
- At least 5 years of hands-on software development experience across the full software development lifecycle
- Experience leading and supervising software engineers, mentoring teams, or managing development projects
- Deep Python development experience and technical project leadership experience
- Experience overseeing and implementing large-scale, complex software project designs
- Expertise creating and maintaining REST APIs
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder relationship management skills
- Experience collaborating with customers, resolving complex technical issues, shaping development workflows, and conducting collaborative code reviews
- Expertise in Django, networking, operating systems, Angular, ServiceNow, CMDB tools, and security software or networking equipment
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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