Software Engineer II

Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex technical challenges?

Are you passionate about cutting-edge technologies and solving system problems?

Join our highly skilled Software Engineering team

The team creates, develops, and oversees applications and infrastructure supporting Akamai's offerings. Solutions enhance observability, boost reliability, and enforce SLAs across teams. This work aligns with Akamai's mission to improve lives globally billions of times daily.

Partner with the best

As a Software Engineer II, collaborate with teams to create tools and software enhancing system reliability and performance. Work with various technologies to develop applications, improve services, and update infrastructure and tools effectively.

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

• Participating in the design, development, enhancement, operation, and automation of software systems and services
• Following modern DevOps practices to build new services and enhance existing solutions
• Testing, profiling, and monitoring code to improve performance, scalability, and reliability
• Diagnosing and resolving system performance and reliability issues in collaboration with Site Reliability Engineers
• Contributing to the modernization and automation of applications, infrastructure, and operational processes

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 2 years of relevant professional experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Have hands-on programming experience with Python and Javascript
• Have experience with cloud-native technologies and concepts, including containers, service orchestration, Kubernetes, microservices architecture, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Have experience with database technologies such as PostgreSQL, Apache Cassandra, understanding of system reliability, automation, and modern DevOps practices.

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.