Are you passionate about collaborating with the Open-Source Community?
Would you like to work with cutting-edge technology?
Join our Engineering Team
Our Engineering Team develops integrated web interfaces and APIs into products, services and platforms. 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. We work directly with the Open-Source community to share comprehensive support, updates and documentation.
Partner with the best
This role involves testing and automating reliable, user-friendly software solutions. Build tools and SDKs for configuring Akamai and Linode products via Terraform, CLI, and CI/CD pipelines (such as GitHub Actions). Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure high-quality releases.
As a Software Development Engineer in Test, you will be responsible for:
- Writing high-quality test cases, building automation, and executing tests for Terraform Provider, SDKs, and Akamai CLI.
- Understanding product requirements and ensuring that they are covered as part of the implementation
- Collaborating in an Agile environment and influencing through code reviews, design discussion and product development
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Demonstrate experience using programming languages like Go, Python, or comparable options.
- Adapt and learn new technologies or programming languages based on project requirements.
- Understand REST API testing, SDKs, CI/CD pipelines (such as GitHub Actions), and Terraform alongside Infrastructure as Code concepts
- Utilize Linux/Unix environments and Git for scripting, development, and system operations.
- Have experience of working in an Agile Team when developing products through the SDLC
- Be detail-oriented with good written and verbal communication skills
- Leverage AI tools and technologies extensively across project workflows to innovate and enhance productivity.
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
- Experience with Go, Python, or comparable programming languages
- Ability to learn new technologies and programming languages based on project requirements
- Understanding of REST API testing
- Understanding of SDKs
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, such as GitHub Actions
- Understanding of Terraform and Infrastructure as Code concepts
- Experience with Linux/Unix environments
- Experience with Git for scripting, development, and system operations
- Experience working in an Agile team through the software development lifecycle
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to leverage AI tools and technologies across project workflows
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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