Software Engineer - Remote

Are you a fast learner who is fascinated by technology?

Are you excited about working with cutting-edge cloud-native systems?

Join our Data Experience Team!

Our Data Experience team consists of collaborative, inclusive, and creative individuals. We develop cloud-native services with high reliability and massive scale on top of Akamai Cloud (formerly Linode) the most distributed and closest to the edge cloud platform.

Partner with the best

You will work at the heart of building and operating an observability stack on top of the next-generation cloud computing platform. You will join other talented engineers in a cross-functional scrum team owning the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of cloud-based services and observability products used by internal and external Akamai customers.

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

• Developing highly scalable and reliable Cloud Observability managed services and collaborating with others in the team .
• Building and maintaining CI/CD environments.
• Contributing to all stages of the software development lifecycle.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you:

• Have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field and 1 to 2 years of relevant experience.
• Have hands-on experience of developing softwares in any of the object-oriented languages (GO, Python etc).
• Have the ability to clearly communicate and have technical discussions with stakeholders.
• Have an idea of networking protocols TCP, UDP, DNS, and HTTP.
• Have attention to details and excellent problem-solving/troubleshooting skills.
• Experience of working with micro-services and kubernetes orchestration systems is an added advantage.
• Experience of working with any third-party-cloud (Azure, AWS,GCP) systems is an added advantage.

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.

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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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