Akamai: Senior Software Engineer
Headquarters: India URL: http://akamai.com
About the Role
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 businesses 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.
Responsibilities
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
Requirements
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 Environment
FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, 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.
About Akamai
Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge, we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.
Benefits
At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:
- Your health
- Your finances
- Your family
- Your time at work
- Your time pursuing other endeavors
Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.
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