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Akamai Technologies

Software Engineer II

Posted 7 Days Ago
In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in India
Junior
In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in India
Junior
Design, build, and deploy scalable zero-trust security solutions. Collaborate cross-functionally to gather requirements, implement API features (Go), write unit tests, optimize distributed system performance, fix bugs, and operate in agile sprints using containers and networking protocols.
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Do you have what it takes to build the technology of tomorrow?

Work with an amazing global team of innovators!

Join the Akamai Cloud Technology Group

Our Team builds and delivers 'zero trust security solutions' for enterprise customers. Our mission is to provide Threat protection and API Based Security solutions. We provide the simplest, fastest, and most intuitive way to enforce Zero Trust principles. We enable customers to proactively identify, block, and mitigate threats in their network and SAAS Applications.

Partner with the best

As Software Engineer II, you'll design, build, and deploy highly scalable, reliable, user-friendly solutions on our infrastructure. You'll collaborate with teams across Akamai to gather requirements, architect solutions, implement features, and perform unit testing. You'll also stay updated on emerging technologies and integrating them to enhance innovation and efficiency.

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

  • Creating new features, or enhance existing functionality, from design through testing and deployment
  • Working in an agile sprint environment to deliver quality software on a regular and consistent basis
  • Measuring, maintaining and optimizing distributed system performance and performing bug fixes of existing applications
  • Working in diverse nature of programming languages as needed

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

  • Have 2+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field
  • Have demonstrated experience in developing applications, including API based Apps in Golang
  • Understand fundamentals of Python along with container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Gain experience with Clickhouse, Redis, MongoDB, Postgres, Grafana, as familiarity with these tools can enhance your skill set.
  • Demonstrate expertise in IP/TCP/UDP, DNS, HTTP, TLS, and related network protocols.
  • Be passionate about solving large scale, secure distributed systems problems using Data Structures and complex Algorithms

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.

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