Are you excited to work with innovative security products at a global scale?
Do you enjoy creating strategic infrastructure solutions to solve complex data challenges?
Join our Team
Akamai's mission is to make digital experiences fast, intelligent, and secure. Our intelligent edge platform extends from the enterprise to the cloud, keeping threats far away. Global brands rely on us for edge security, web performance, and video delivery. Our solutions are backed by unmatched service, analytics, and 24/7/365 monitoring. Together, we accelerate their multi-cloud world and digital future.
What does our team do?
The Identity Engineering team at Akamai delivers zero-trust enterprise security solutions. Our platform offers authentication, multifactor capabilities, and analytics. Integrated with Akamai's global network, it enhances security and user experience. We seek a Senior Software Engineer to develop scalable backend systems, proxies, and load balancers. Contribute to building secure, high-performance digital experiences with us.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Designing and building scalable backend applications for next-generation identity solutions.
- Collaborating with Product Management and engineering teams to deliver high-quality features.
- Conducting design reviews and partnering with QA to deploy production code.
- Collaborating across the organization with Data Science, Product, and Operations to build innovative components of Akamai's Big Data AI solutions.
- Solving complex technical challenges proactively with a high success rate.
- Participating actively in agile SCRUM planning and technical team meetings.
- Optimizing and supporting the continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 5+ years in backend engineering roles, including 3+ years coding in Python, Go, or similar languages.
- 3+ years designing systems, writing/reviewing code, and automating issues within the team's domain.
- 1+ years of experience with RDBMS (PostgreSQL/MySQL), Windows Server, and Active Directory.
- Work with Linux systems and design schemas for both relational and NoSQL databases.
- Understand large-scale production systems, load balancing, monitoring, and distributed systems.
- Demonstrate exceptional communication skills combined with an eagerness to learn new technologies.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to support the production backend effectively.
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.
Akamai Technologies Denver, Colorado, USA Office
Denver, United States
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