Are you interested in how software can be made more secure?
Would you like to work with data to enable teams to mitigate security risks?
Join our Compute Technology Group (CTG) Engineering Division
CTG Engineering team owns, develops and manages the solutions used by our engineers globally. These solutions help to run one of the largest compute systems in the world. We work closely with stakeholders to create innovative, powerful, scalable, highly reliable and secure systems at scale.
Work with cutting edge technology
You will gather requirements, design, implement, and maintain build and infrastructure tools used by development and test teams. You will follow industry best practices focusing on software security, reliability, and scalability.
As a Software Engineer Senior, you will be responsible for:
- Creating new features and building tools from conception through release to ensure customers have an exceptional experience.
- Designing and development of highly scalable software that runs on the Akamai infrastructure.
- Developing software to enhance our engineering productivity by creating frontend and backend for our vulnerability management.
- Designing, maintaining, and scaling multi-platform build systems and optimizing build performance parallelism, and efficient dependency management across target architectures.
- Partnering with internal cross-functional teams to translate requirements into solutions to meet business objectives.
- Implementing new features, enhancing and optimizing existing features.
- Contributing ideas and knowledge to the process-improvement sessions team to facilitate continuous improvement of our products.
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 its equivalent.
- Display in-depth knowledge of Object Oriented programming like Python, Java, Go, C/C++.
- Demonstrate experience with multi-platform build generators (CMake, Bazel, Cargo, or Meson) and configuring C/C++ compilers (GCC/Clang).
- Have experience with toolchains, sysroots for multi-architecture compilation targets such as AArch64/ARMv8/ARMv9 architectures as well as traditional Intel and AMD architectures.
- Possess hands on experience with service-oriented architecture, REST, microservices, databases and SQL.
- Have experience with any CI/CD tools (i.e. Cloudbees CI/Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Gitlab etc ).
- Have a good understanding of security, compliance & SLA.
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 software engineering experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- In-depth object-oriented programming knowledge using Python, Java, Go, or C/C++
- Experience with multi-platform build generators such as CMake, Bazel, Cargo, or Meson
- Experience configuring C/C++ compilers, including GCC or Clang
- Experience with toolchains and sysroots for multi-architecture compilation, including AArch64, ARMv8, ARMv9, Intel, and AMD architectures
- Hands-on experience with service-oriented architecture, REST, microservices, databases, and SQL
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as CloudBees CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab
- Understanding of security, compliance, and service-level agreements
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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