Are you a Linux enthusiast seeking a new opportunity?
Do you have a passion for improving cloud products?
Join our Compute Lab Team!
The Compute Lab Team mission is to accelerate innovation by making computing simple, scalable, accessible, and affordable for all. We provide the infrastructure and services that enable our developers to build the next generation of the Akamai Cloud.
Partner with the best
In this role, you'll collaborate with Development and SRE teams in building and managing mission-critical critical lab infrastructure services and environments. You'll contribute directly to scaling our infrastructure and management tools driving development and testing improvements felt throughout our entire organization.
As a Senior II Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Enhancing an application responsible for managing reservations of physical hardware used by teams for testing their Akamai Cloud projects.
- Developing a software backend that automates the creation of testing environments to support dozens of services and engineering teams.
- Contributing to the team mission of developing virtual machine based development environments that perform and scale to meet our engineers demands.
- Identifying bottlenecks with development and deployment strategies, proposing solutions that improve reliability and performance.
- Providing technical leadership to other members of the team in the form of proposing improvements to coding and design patterns.
- Building reporting tools for tracking capacity utilization for virtual machines and physical hardware.
- Collaborating with a global team on solutions that increase the speed and confidence in which they ship products.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 8+ years of experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent in work experience.
- Possess experience using Python to construct
robust backend services, APIs, scalable platform automation, and intuitive command-line interfaces. - Showcase a proven track record in developing resilient test automation frameworks for
cloud infrastructure solutions. - Demonstrate in-depth expertise in microservices, cloud networking architectures, and
relational databases such as MySQL and Postgres - Utilize proficiency in container orchestration technologies, including Docker and
Kubernetes - Leverage hands-on experience with tools such as Ansible, Terraform, and Grafana to advance system automation and observability.
- Draw upon prior experience in guiding, mentoring, or leading junior engineering staff.
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 120,400 - 216,600 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
- 8+ years of professional experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
- Experience using Python to build robust backend services, APIs, platform automation, and command-line interfaces
- Experience developing resilient test automation frameworks for cloud infrastructure solutions
- Expertise in microservices
- Expertise in cloud networking architectures
- Experience with relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL
- Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with Ansible, Terraform, and Grafana
- Experience guiding, mentoring, or leading junior engineering staff
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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