Akamai

Software Engineer II

Akamai
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Remote, United States or Cambridge, MA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$95k - $171k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, write, and automate code supporting products serving millions of users.
  • Contribute to architecture for performant, scalable, available, secure, and resilient systems.
  • Review code and collaborate across teams on engineering practices and delivery.
  • Translate product specifications into elegant, reusable, and maintainable designs and components.
  • Debug complex production issues, handle escalations, and provide timely solutions during on-call duties.
  • Build automation tools to improve system efficiency and operational excellence.
  • Develop expertise in large-scale system design, performance engineering, and AI technologies.

Requirements

  • Have at least 2 years of full-stack experience and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • Be proficient in Python, Java, TypeScript, Spring, Angular, and Flask.
  • Have a solid foundation in SQL and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL and Cassandra.
  • Understand distributed systems, algorithms, data structures, and object-oriented programming.
  • Communicate effectively with technical and business stakeholders.
  • Have experience with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins and AI code editors such as GitHub Copilot.
  • Have hands-on experience developing systems using AI models, RAG, and LangGraph or equivalent technologies.
  • Be familiar with event-driven flows, load balancers, and message queues in production environments.

Benefits

  • Benefits include healthcare, a 401K savings plan, company holidays, PTO, sick time, parental leave, an employee assistance program, and mental and financial wellness support, subject to eligibility requirements.
  • Akamai’s FlexBase program supports working from home, in an office, or through a combination of both.
  • The compensation package may also include annual bonus or incentive compensation, equity awards, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Tech Stack

AngularApache CassandraFlaskJavaJenkinsPostgreSQLPythonSQLTypeScript

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About Akamai

10,000+ employees

Akamai builds content delivery, cloud security, and edge compute services for enterprises that run consumer and business web, API, and video workloads. The public company (NASDAQ: AKAM), founded in 1998 and headquartered in Cambridge, MA, operates a global CDN and security platform and sells via subscriptions and usage-based services. It expanded into cloud infrastructure by acquiring Linode in 2022, offering IaaS and managed Kubernetes.

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