Senior Software Engineer

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

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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