2 days ago
Base Salary
$121k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own feature delivery from requirements and design through release.
- Build modular infrastructure and product services in an ultra-high-traffic environment.
- Develop complex threat detection algorithms using Golang and Python.
- Collaborate across teams to integrate existing components and deliver customer solutions.
- Serve as a subject-matter expert for key components.
- Mentor junior engineers and promote engineering best practices.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software development experience.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Proficiency in Golang and strong programming skills in Python.
- Experience developing RESTful APIs, HTTP services, and proxies.
- Knowledge of Linux internals, performance tuning, security, networking, distributed systems, and concurrent programming.
- Experience with NoSQL databases such as Cassandra and Redis, including data modeling.
- Experience integrating with AWS or other cloud platforms.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools to write, review, and test code.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements through Akamai's FlexBase program, including working from home, in an office, or a combination of both.
- Healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, PTO, sick time, parental leave, and an employee assistance program focused on mental and financial wellness.
- Potential eligibility for annual bonus or incentive compensation, equity awards, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
About Akamai
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.