Would you like to work with cutting-edge technology?
Are you a Phyton developer who loves creating complex web applications?
Join our Authentication Team
The team oversees authentication services for Akamai Control Center and Linode's Cloud Manager. Access is secured using protocols like OAuth and SAML, integrated with various security tools. Engineers are needed to enhance and expand these essential platforms.
Partner with the best
Your responsibilities include creating secure, scalable, and user-friendly solutions within modern architecture. Work involves developing and integrating platform components used by customers and engineering teams. Contributions directly impact the security of Akamai Control Center and Cloud Manager, two critical systems. This role offers a unique opportunity to enhance system functionality and security across platforms.
As a Software Engineer II, you will be responsible for:
- Developing and maintaining backend services and full-stack web applications using Python, with potential inclusion of JavaScript, TypeScript, and Java.
- Implementing security best practices (OWASP Top 10) while ensuring expertise in core internet protocols like TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, TLS/SSL.
- Engaging in every phase of the project lifecycle, from system design to deployment and post-release issue resolution.
- Leveraging modern AI-assisted development tools to boost productivity and efficiency
- Applying principles of system design to create scalable solutions, overseeing deployments, containerization(Docker), proxy management, certificate handling, and ensuring reliability.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Demonstrate expertise in computer science fundamentals, such as data structures, algorithms, and system design, through accredited education or equivalent practical experience.
- Develop practical backend solutions in Python using frameworks such as Flask or FastAPI, while creating RESTful APIs for production environments.
- Demonstrate expertise in SQL, Docker, Git, shell scripting, and managing services in active production environments effectively.
- Apply practical knowledge of internet technologies, core web protocols, web security concepts, and OWASP Top 10 practices effectively and comprehensively.
- Embrace learning and utilizing emerging technologies while maintaining openness to modern AI-assisted development tools for innovative solutions.
- Nice to have:Full-stack / frontend experience (JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular), exposure to Java/Spring or NoSQL, or background in auth systems (OAuth 2.0, SAML).
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
- Accredited computer science education or equivalent practical experience in computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, and system design
- Backend development experience using Python and frameworks such as Flask or FastAPI
- Experience creating production RESTful APIs
- Expertise in SQL, Docker, Git, and shell scripting
- Experience managing services in active production environments
- Practical knowledge of internet technologies, core web protocols, web security concepts, and OWASP Top 10 practices
- Openness to learning emerging technologies and using AI-assisted development tools
- Full-stack or frontend experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, or Angular
- Exposure to Java and Spring
- Experience with NoSQL databases
- Background in authentication systems, OAuth 2.0, or SAML
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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