Do you love collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?
Would you like to solve technical challenges for our customers?
Join our Networking Software Engineering Team
Our Networking Software Engineering Team builds and maintains the tools, hardware, and software needed to manage and implement Akamai's physical network. Working collaboratively and encompassing the full engineering cycle, we're constantly innovating to deliver for our customers. Our contribution is critical to the success of our customers' and Akamai's business.
Make a difference in a critical area of our business
This dynamic role involves working with networking engineering teams to maintain functionality, performance, and stability of physical network features. Your attention to detail and testing methods throughout the product lifecycle ensure high-performing, innovative security products and a reliable networking infrastructure.
As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, you will be responsible for:
- Taking ownership for testing your products, creating test strategies and delivering high-quality software solutions
- Using software development skills to develop tools, test frameworks and automation of the testing process
- Collaborating with software engineering teams in an Agile environment on code review, design process and product development
- Influencing and shaping the design process and product development
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- Have experience in web testing using frameworks such as Selenium
- Have experience of working with Linux/Unix-like operating systems
- Have experience with containerized applications using Docker or Kubernetes
- Understand internet functionality, including networks, protocols, IP networks, DNS, routing, and communication protocols like HTTP, TCP, or SSL/TLS.
- Have experience configuring and testing Juniper or Cisco routers and switches, with knowledge of internet routing protocols, particularly BGP.
- Demonstrate enthusiasm for exploring tools and technologies, identifying issues, collaborating effectively, solving problems, and working independently with others.
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 relevant experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- Experience with web testing frameworks such as Selenium
- Experience with Linux or Unix-like operating systems
- Experience with containerized applications using Docker or Kubernetes
- Understanding of internet functionality, networks, protocols, IP networks, DNS, routing, HTTP, TCP, and SSL/TLS
- Experience configuring and testing Juniper or Cisco routers and switches
- Knowledge of internet routing protocols, particularly BGP
- Ability to explore tools and technologies, identify issues, collaborate effectively, solve problems, and work independently
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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