Senior Software Engineer

Zero Trust Security Team

Are you excited to work on innovative enterprise security products? Are you passionate about developing top of the line applications using cutting-edge technologies? Join our Zero Trust Security team.

Our team develops and maintains cutting-edge security solutions for Akamai's enterprise customers. We collaborate with Dev, QA, DevOps, product, support, and sales engineering to deliver secure products. Our goal is to help business to deliver secure products, enhance security features, and protect our customers.

Shape internet security

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop, maintain, and architect our cloud services and web applications. Focus on security standards, network security projects, and collaborate in a dynamic, rewarding learning environment.

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

• Developing new products and enhancing our Zero Trust solution with new features
• Designing, developing, validating, maintaining, releasing, and operating Python and GoLang backend services
• Reviewing and maintaining technical documents related to requirements, design, and architecture
• Taking full ownership of your areas of work from design to deployment
• Contributing to system design and architecture decisions
• Mentoring junior engineers and participate actively in code reviews

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 5+ years of experience and a degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Have experience with modern authorization mechanisms and modern identity management concepts
• Have experience building backend services using Python and Golang
• Have working knowledge of frontend technologies to collaborate effectively with UI teams
• Have a good understanding of microservices architecture, scalable architectures, and have work experience with RESTful APIs
• Be familiar with relational and non-relational databases, caching mechanisms, and service communications

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.

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!