Software Engineer II

Are you passionate about cutting edge technology?

Do you enjoy working with a diverse multi-national team of engineering talents?

Join our Data Engineering Team!

The Data Engineering team is part of Cloud Technology Group which delivers cutting-edge cloud and edge networking solutions to the market. We design, implement, deploy and operate data streaming platforms with a primary mission to enable product teams to develop high-performing operationally safe and secure products in an agile manner.

Partner with the best

As a Software Engineer II, you will join a team of software and platform engineers. Your team will enhance platform core services and will design and develop DevOps tools for managing 100% availability and three 9's performance and reliability SLOs for FedRAMP, GDPR and SOX compliant data streaming platform.

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

• Contributing to the design and implementation of highly available, scalable, and performant solutions
• Building, integrating, and supporting FedRAMP compliance for data streaming services on Akamai Platform
• Designing and developing DevOps tools to make the software delivery system run seamlessly
• Developing processes and tools to monitor, analyze, maintain and improve streaming data pipelines usability and observability
• Developing and implementing procedures for automating operational tasks streamlining day-to-day work with focus on FedRAMP and SOX compliance

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have relevant experience and a Bachelor's diploma in Computer Science or its equivalent
• Have relevant experience as a system or platform engineer and in creating, maintaining and migrating REST APIs
• Have experience with SQL and software development using at least 2 out of Golang, Python, Java, C/C++, JavaScript is nice to have
• Have experience with distributed systems and Linux networking (incl. TCP/IP, SSH, SSL, HTTP)
• Possess experience with contemporary DevOps practices and CI/CD and need to have eagerness to learn
• Have experience with massive data platforms (Hadoop, Spark, etc), data streaming concepts and design principles (Data Modeling, Streaming vs Batch processing, Distributed Messaging, etc)

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.

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