Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?
Do you have a passion for cutting edge technologies and tackling system problems?
Join our highly skilled Software team
Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's products and services. We specialize in creating solutions that help improve observability and enforce SLAs across all internal teams. We do all of this while maintaining Akamai's mission to make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.
Partner with the best
As a Software Engineer II, you will collaborate across operations teams and application development teams. Together, you will be creating tooling and software that monitors and improves the reliability of our systems. You'll work with a diverse range of technologies as we release new applications and modernize existing tooling.
As a Software Engineer II, you will be responsible for:
- Participating in the design, development, improvement, operation, and automation.
- Following modern DevOps practices, building new services, or enhancing the existing ones
- Testing, profiling, and monitoring code performance
- Partnering with product owners, development, and test groups to create rapid cycles of feedback and improvement
- Diagnosing system performance and reliability together with the team of Site Reliability Engineers
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have the relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent experience
- Possess previous experience with cloud native concepts including containers, service orchestration, Kubernetes, microservices architecture and infrastructure-as-code
- Have experience with database engines like PostgreSQL, Apache Cassandra, etc.
- Have hands-on experience with Python3 and REST API frameworks such as Flask, Django, or FastAPI
Work in a way that works for you
FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.
Learn what makes Akamai a great place to work
We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.
At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.
Working for you
At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:
- Your health
- Your finances
- Your family
- Your time at work
- Your time pursuing other endeavors
Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.
About us
Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.
Join us
Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!
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