Are you a software developer who loves solving problems?
Would you enjoy working in a fast-moving team developing enterprise products?
Join the Akamai Cloud Technology Group
The Akamai Cloud Technology Engineering team owns, develops and manages the solutions used by our engineers globally. These solutions help to run one of the largest distributed systems in the world. We work closely with internal teams and stakeholders to create innovative, powerful, scalable, highly reliable and secure systems at scale.
Partner with the best
As a Software Engineer II at Akamai, you will design, build, and deploy highly scalable, reliable, and user-friendly solutions on our infrastructure. You'll collaborate with architects to refine requirements, architect solutions, implement features, and conduct unit testing to ensure high performance and maintainability. In this role, you'll also stay ahead of emerging technologies, integrating them as needed to drive innovation and efficiency.
As a Software Engineer II, you will be responsible for:
- Creating new features, or enhance existing functionality, from design through testing and deployment.
- Interacting with development, product management, architecture, QA, and support teams throughout the product lifecycle.
- Working in an agile sprint environment to deliver quality software on a regular and consistent basis.
- Involving in enhancement and bug fixes of existing applications and understanding and resolving complex technical problems.
- Measuring, maintaining and optimizing distributed system performance and working in diverse nature of programming languages as needed.
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 proficient experience in developing applications using Java, Spring, JavaScript & databases.
- Have experience in working on front end technologies like Angular/bootstrap/ReactJS.
- Have exposure to building LLM-powered applications and AI agents, including MCP servers that integrate models with external tools, data sources, and APIs.
- Have knowledge of one or more web programming languages such as Python, Perl or Php with exposure to AI coding tools.
- Demonstrate enthusiasm for learning, understanding, and analyzing emerging technologies independently while utilizing build tools and Linux Shell commands 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.
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