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 platform. Working collaboratively and encompassing the full engineering cycle, we constantly innovate to deliver for our customers. We work directly with the Open-Source community to share comprehensive support, updates and documentation. Our team works on Akamai Terraform Provider as well as Akamai Command Line Interface (CLI).
Work with cutting edge technology
As a Software Engineer you will be focused on building highly usable, reliable, and robust software solutions that will be.at the forefront of handling customer engagements within the company. You will build tools allowing our customers to configure Akamai products using Terraform or CLI focusing primarily on developing software according to best practices to maximize efficiency within the SDLC through automation. Your delivery and deployment are a critical part of our ability to deliver high quality software.
As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Developing tools that are primarily open sourced and available on https://github.com/akamai and utilized by our customers
- Implementing Akamai Terraform Provider and Akamai CLI projects
- Creating new features from scratch, enhancing existing features and optimizing existing functionality
- Contributing to key technical decisions and design choices, as well as writing code
- Handling changes to existing tools to ensure that they align with the long-term strategy
- Collaborating with our QA teams to create regression tests that cover new changes to our software
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Demonstrate experience and knowledge of programming languages such as Python, Go or Java
- Be passionate about programming and have an interest in learning new programming languages
- Have a basic understanding of Terraform and Infrastructure as a Code concept
- Show experience with Docker or similar container technologies
- Have experience of working in a Remote Agile Team when developing products through the SDLC
- Be detail-oriented with good written and verbal communication skills
Work in a way that works for you
We recognize that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best can vary for each person.
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At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.
Working for you
At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:
- Your health
- Your finances
- Your family
- Your time at work
- Your time pursuing other endeavors
Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.
About us
Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.
Join us
Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!
Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.
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Skills Required
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Go or Java
- Basic understanding of Terraform and Infrastructure as a Code concept
- Experience with Docker or similar container technologies
- Experience working in a Remote Agile Team
- Good written and verbal communication skills
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.
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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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