Does the opportunity to develop and produce high performance systems excite you?
Do you thrive when given the freedom to innovate?
Join our world-class Edge Technology organization
The Edge Platform team plans, builds, maintains, and operates a global platform, ensuring reliable availability and performance for customers. It designs, develops, and deploys essential technologies, including hardware, software, and network infrastructure, supporting all products.
Partner with the best
As a Software Engineer II, you'll work on high-reliability/high-throughput systems that manage our customer's security certificates and configurations. Our team provides support to several other teams at Akamai who require secure delivery. Our work centers around building systems which operate at large scale, with high resilience and performance.
As a Software Engineer II, you will be responsible for:
- Designing and developing systems capable of handling tens of thousands of concurrent operations
- Developing software to make efficient use of Relational Database Management Systems and NoSQL databases
- Creating new features from scratch, enhancing existing features and optimizing existing functionality
- Following good development methodology, including collaboration with testing and SQA departments to successfully deploy new system components
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 2 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
- Have solid experience in Java and Scala, familiarity with Python, C++, or Bash in Linux/Unix environments
- Have hands-on experience with Spring and Spring Boot frameworks for building scalable backend applications
- Gain expertise in UI technologies with practical experience using Angular to deliver efficient and effective front-end development solutions.
- Have experience with containerization tools such as Docker; exposure to cloud platforms like Azure
- Gain experience with Terraform and GoLang for effective contributions and enhanced technical proficiency in relevant projects.
- Demonstrate experience with SQL, relational databases like Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres, and NoSQL databases such as Elasticsearch or Cassandra.
- Demonstrate expertise using version control tools like Git and project tracking platforms such as Jira 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.
