Senior II Software Engineer

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2 Locations
In-Office or Remote
Senior level
Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity
Akamai powers and protects life online by solving the toughest challenges and turning the impossible into the possible.
The Role
Develop scalable bot detection and protection products for web and mobile platforms. Responsibilities include designing and implementing features, improving existing functionality, troubleshooting complex customer issues, analyzing data, enhancing JavaScript client components, and delivering clean, reliable software from conception through deployment.
Summary Generated by Built In

Would you enjoy protecting the world leading brands ?

Do you enjoy problem-solving and coding using full stack development?

Join our highly skilled Security team

Our team is part of the Security organization, responsible for developing products and platforms focused on security. Our Bot & Agent Control product is designed to provide top-tier cloud computing security, prevent data theft and mitigate large account takeover attempts. We build unique technology to handle petabytes of data and conduct billions of secure transactions daily

Shape the future of security products

As part of a Bot & Agent Control Engineering team, you will focus on building highly usable, reliable, and scalable software solutions for bot threat detection, protection and control features. Allowing our customers to better manage bot traffic and help improve the internet for millions of people.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:

  • Working on projects that improve our bot detection products making Akamai a leader in bot detection
  • Implementing new features from scratch. Enhancing existing features and optimize existing functionality, from conception and design through testing and deployment.
  • Working with our level 3 support to troubleshooting complex problems or any customer issues.Working on data analysis for web and mobile platforms
  • Working on making improvements to client side components like Javascript on need basis

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

  • Have 8+ years of overall SW development experience and relevant degree in Computer Science
  • Have 5+ years of experience with Javascript and Java/Python for web development and web API development
  • Have a good understanding of data formats such as JSON, XML.
  • Have work experience or understanding with Machine learning or Data science
  • Be able to design with best possible architectures and write clean well-structured code

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.

Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like!      

Skills Required

  • 8+ years of overall software development experience
  • Relevant degree in Computer Science
  • 5+ years of experience with JavaScript and Java or Python for web and web API development
  • Understanding of JSON and XML data formats
  • Work experience or understanding of machine learning or data science
  • Ability to design effective architectures and write clean, well-structured code

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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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The Company
HQ: Cambridge, MA
10,285 Employees
Year Founded: 1998

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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