Senior II Software Engineer

Do you want to help design and implement the next generation of cloud computing?

Would you like to create solutions and make an impact on the future of the Internet?

Join our Cloud Networking Products team!

Akamai Cloud consists of collaborative, inclusive, and creative teams. We develop applications and services to empower our customers. Our mission is to accelerate innovation by making cloud computing simple, scalable, affordable, and accessible to all. We design, develop, test, and maintain products that run on our IaaS platform.

Shape the future of the Akamai Cloud

This role provides an opportunity to significantly impact Akamai's growing cloud offerings, requiring a combination of system design, programming, debugging skills, an obsession with code quality, and independence. You will help design and build Akamai's next-generation Cloud Load Balancer. You must have a passion for getting things done quickly and right.

As a Software Engineer Senior II, you will be responsible for:

• Contributing to the development of the Cloud Load Balancer and other cloud-networking technologies
• Sharing your experience and developing best practices along with the team
• Designing, implementing, reviewing, documenting, testing, and deploying high-quality code in close collaboration with multiple teams
• Working closely with local and remote peers and collaborating with global teams on various technical topics
• Leveraging LLMs as a core part of your workflow for tasks such as generating boilerplate code, exploring implementation options and debugging issues

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have relevant experience and a Bachelor's diploma in Computer Science or related field
• Know networking fundamentals (IPv4/6, TCP/UDP, TLS)
• Have experience with Linux-based operating systems
• Have experience in building scalable software solutions
• Have experience with Python programming language
• Be open to learn and use new languages as needed (e.g. Go or C++)

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.

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We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

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