Would you like the opportunity to solve technical challenges?
Are you excited about working with cutting-edge technologies?
Join our team
Our Edge Platform division designs, develops, and operates technology that helps our customers improve their Web and Media content delivery. Leveraging our deployment of servers around the world, we can uniquely solve technology problems with innovative solutions.
Make a difference to a vital part of our business
As a Software Engineer II at Akamai, you'll be responsible for developing performant and scalable software. You will work with highly-skilled developers to manage the upgrade and deployment of a network of thousands of production servers.
As a Software Engineer II, you will be responsible for:
- Collaborating with the product engineering team and/or working group
- Conducting regular Production Error Audits of operational metrics and deep-dive log analysis to proactively detect anomalies and error conditions
- Designing and implementing software tools that enhance productivity with respect to debugging, check-listing, and product metric analysis
- Designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines that are key to building releases and deploying them to testing, staging, and production environments
- Triaging and analysis of customer escalations related to product operations and behaviour, including the identification, mitigation, and resolution of product bugs
- Participating as a Subject-Matter Expert in Technical Incidents, performing root cause analysis, identifying and executing incident mitigations
- Fostering a culture that strives for consistent, iterative improvement to our processes, strategies, tools and frameworks
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 2 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field/experience
- Be interested in learning about internet technologies and optimizations
- Have experience developing and monitoring backend applications, such as databases, queuing systems, understanding of system limits and impacts on performance/scale
- Have experience with some technologies like Java, Angular, Spring Framework, NoSQL Databases, Realtime Service Delivery, containerization technologies
- Have expertise with scripting languages in a Linux/Unix environment (eg: shell, Bash, Python, Ruby)
- Be comfortable with basic statistics and an interest in deeper analysis will be an asset
- Be enthusiastic about automation, and build tools to streamline development processes and reduce manual toil
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.
Compensation
Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from 82,100 - 147,900 CAD/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, RRSP, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.
Skills Required
- Two years of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent related experience
- Experience developing and monitoring backend applications
- Experience with databases, queuing systems, system limits, and performance or scalability impacts
- Experience with technologies such as Java, Angular, Spring Framework, NoSQL databases, realtime service delivery, and containerization
- Expertise with scripting languages in a Linux or Unix environment, such as shell, Bash, Python, or Ruby
- Basic statistics knowledge
- Interest in deeper statistical analysis
- Enthusiasm for automation and reducing manual development toil
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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