Are you passionate about distributed platforms and solving technology problems on a large scale?
Do you want to work with Big Data systems?
Make an Impact with our Data Services team
The Data Experience Team owns and operates systems that are used across Akamai for log delivery, analytics, reporting and alerting. These systems currently receive over 7PB/day of data and process over 5 trillion records per day. Our code helps to run one of the largest distributed systems in the world. You will work at the heart of the Internet.
You will build and extend services processing large volumes of data and managing its storage and retrieval. You will join a cross-functional scrum team that owns services and products’ design, development and deployment and maintenance. Thousands of internal and external Akamai customers use these.
Partner with the best
Our team is collaborative, inclusive, and creative. We develop applications and services to empower our customers. In this role, you'll work closely with developers to design, develop and test our new applications and services that will turn into Akamai future products.
As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Participating in the design, development, improvement, operation, and automation of observability solutions for scalable and resilient services that leverage both Open Source solutions like Kubernetes and Kafka as well as internal tools
- Following modern DevOps practices, building new services, or enhancing the existing ones
- Testing, profiling, and monitoring code performance
- Diagnosing system performance and reliability together with the team of Site Reliability Engineers
- Contributing to internal research processes, methodologies, and approaches to create and share best practices
- Partnering with product owners, development, and test groups to create rapid cycles of feedback and improvement
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have experience in programming and automating processes using Java and other programming languages
- Know Web technologies and frameworks like Spring
- Have experience working with databases and SQL queries syntax
- Have an understanding of the development, management, and deployment of highly scalable applications, distributed systems, and modern observability
- Have experience with developing software in GNU/Linux or Unix environment
- Collaborate and effectively communicate with multidisciplinary teams to solve technical and business challenges
- Have interest in or experience of cloud deployment with Kubernetes, eg. AWS or Linode
- Have interest in or experience with Kafka
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 programming and automating processes using Java and other programming languages
- Knowledge of web technologies and frameworks like Spring
- Experience working with databases and SQL
- Understanding of development, management, and deployment of highly scalable applications and distributed systems
- Experience with modern observability solutions, testing, profiling, and monitoring code performance
- Experience developing software in GNU/Linux or Unix environments
- Experience with DevOps practices and service automation
- Interest in or experience with cloud deployment using Kubernetes (e.g., AWS or Linode)
- Interest in or experience with Kafka
- Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with multidisciplinary teams
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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