Akamai: Senior Software Engineer

Description

Are you excited to work on innovative enterprise security products?

Are you passionate about developing top of the line applications using cutting-edge technologies?

Join our Zero Trust Security team

Our team develops and maintains cutting-edge security solutions for Akamai's enterprise customers. We collaborate with Dev, QA, DevOps, product, support, and sales engineering to deliver secure products. Our goal is to help business to deliver secure products, enhance security features, and protect our customers.

Shape internet security

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop, maintain, and architect our cloud services and web applications. Focus on security standards, network security projects, and collaborate in a dynamic, rewarding learning environment.

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

• Developing new products and enhancing our Zero Trust solution with new features
• Designing, developing, validating, maintaining, releasing, and operating Python and GoLang backend services
• Reviewing and maintaining technical documents related to requirements, design, and architecture
• Taking full ownership of your areas of work from design to deployment
• Contributing to system design and architecture decisions
• Mentoring junior engineers and participate actively in code reviews

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 5+ years of experience and a degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Have experience with modern authorization mechanisms and modern identity management concepts
• Have experience building backend services using Python and Golang
• Have working knowledge of frontend technologies to collaborate effectively with UI teams
• Have a good understanding of microservices architecture, scalable architectures, and have work experience with RESTful APIs
• Be familiar with relational and non-relational databases, caching mechanisms, and service communications

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

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