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Senior Software Engineer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • +5 years of relevant experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent
  • In-depth knowledge of Object Oriented programming like Python, Java, Go, C/C++
  • Experience with multi-platform build generators (CMake, Bazel, Cargo, or Meson)

Responsibilities

  • Creating new features and building tools from conception through release to ensure customers have an exceptional experience
  • Designing and development of highly scalable software that runs on the Akamai infrastructure
  • Developing software to enhance our engineering productivity by creating frontend and backend for our vulnerability management
  • Partnering with internal cross-functional teams to translate requirements into solutions to meet business objectives

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Collaboration
  • Communication
  • Problem Solving

About the company

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Akamai Technologies

Cloud Computing & Infrastructure (IaaS/PaaS)

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every day, billions of people around the world connect with their favorite brands to shop online, play the latest video games, log into mobile banking apps, learn remotely, share videos with friends, and so much more. They may not know it, but Akamai is there, powering and protecting life online. Over 20 years ago, we set out to solve the toughest challenge of the early internet: the “World Wide Wait.” And we’ve been solving the internet’s toughest challenges ever since, working toward our vision of a safer and more connected world. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Our leading security, compute, and delivery solutions are helping global companies make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges? Be part of an amazing team. Let’s connect: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/akamai-technologies Twitter: https://twitter.com/Akamai Blog: https://www.akamai.com/blog

Company details

Company typeXLarge
IndustryCloud Computing & Infrastructure (IaaS/PaaS)
Company size5001 - 10000

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Job description

Are you interested in how software can be made more secure?

Would you like to work with data to enable teams to mitigate security risks?

Join our Compute Technology Group (CTG) Engineering Division

CTG Engineering team owns, develops and manages the solutions used by our engineers globally. These solutions help to run one of the largest compute systems in the world. We work closely with stakeholders to create innovative, powerful, scalable, highly reliable and secure systems at scale.

Work with cutting edge technology

You will gather requirements, design, implement, and maintain build and infrastructure tools used by development and test teams. You will follow industry best practices focusing on software security, reliability, and scalability.

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

  • Creating new features and building tools from conception through release to ensure customers have an exceptional experience.
  • Designing and development of highly scalable software that runs on the Akamai infrastructure.
  • Developing software to enhance our engineering productivity by creating frontend and backend for our vulnerability management.
  • Designing, maintaining, and scaling multi-platform build systems and optimizing build performance parallelism, and efficient dependency management across target architectures.
  • Partnering with internal cross-functional teams to translate requirements into solutions to meet business objectives.
  • Implementing new features, enhancing and optimizing existing features.
  • Contributing ideas and knowledge to the process-improvement sessions team to facilitate continuous improvement of our products.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

  • Have +5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent.
  • Display in-depth knowledge of Object Oriented programming like Python, Java, Go, C/C++.
  • Demonstrate experience with multi-platform build generators (CMake, Bazel, Cargo, or Meson) and configuring C/C++ compilers (GCC/Clang).
  • Have experience with toolchains, sysroots for multi-architecture compilation targets such as AArch64/ARMv8/ARMv9 architectures as well as traditional Intel and AMD architectures.
  • Possess hands on experience with service-oriented architecture, REST, microservices, databases and SQL.
  • Have experience with any CI/CD tools (i.e. Cloudbees CI/Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Gitlab etc ).
  • Have a good understanding of security, compliance & SLA.

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

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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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