Are you passionate about distributed platforms?
And solving technology problems on a large scale?
Join our Data Experience team
Our platform transforms complex data into actionable customer insights, reporting, and real-time alerts. You will work across the full technology stack and software lifecycle from backend and frontend development to APIs, testing, CI/CD, observability, and production operations.
Partner with the best
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to play a key role in designing, building, and evolving our core Edge Experience platform. You will own end-to-end solutions: from understanding business requirements and technical design through implementation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement. As a senior member of the team, you will also influence technical direction, improve engineering practices, and. support other engineers through mentoring and knowledge sharing.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Design & Build: Develop scalable, maintainable backend services, frontend applications, APIs, and integrations
- Work Across the Stack: Contribute seamlessly across backend, frontend, infrastructure, testing, CI/CD, and observability
- Own Solutions End-to-End: Take responsibility from initial requirements and technical design through implementation, deployment, and production support
- Drive Technical Decisions: Evaluate trade-offs and choose pragmatic solutions balancing scalability, reliability, maintainability, performance, and security
- Build for Reliability: Improve system resilience, observability, test automation, and overall production health
- Lead & Mentoring: Elevate team members through constructive code reviews, technical discussions, and knowledge sharing
- Collaborate: Work closely with Product Managers, Architects, and cross-functional teams to turn business needs into effective technical solutions
Do what you love
What We’re Looking For:
- Core Stack: Extensive experience designing and building production-grade applications using Java and Spring Boot, alongside hands-on frontend experience with Angular and TypeScript
- Architecture & Clean Code: Deep understanding of RESTful APIs, modular design, clean code practices, and distributed systems trade-offs
- DevOps & Observability: Practical experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, automated testing, and operating/troubleshooting production systems using tools like Grafana, Splunk, or similar
- Leadership & Ownership: Proven ability to take ownership of complex technical challenges, drive them to resolution, and support fellow engineers through technical leadership
- Communication & Pragmatism: Solid problem-solving mindset with the ability to clearly articulate technical decisions and business trade-offs in English
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
- Extensive experience designing and building production-grade applications with Java and Spring Boot
- Hands-on frontend development experience with Angular and TypeScript
- Deep understanding of RESTful APIs, modular design, clean code practices, and distributed systems trade-offs
- Practical experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and automated testing
- Experience operating and troubleshooting production systems using Grafana, Splunk, or similar observability tools
- Ability to own complex technical challenges and provide technical leadership, mentoring, and knowledge sharing
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills, including the ability to articulate technical decisions and business trade-offs in English
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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