Senior Software Engineer – Remote

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 Team
Our team operates within the Zero Trust Security Group, which develops and maintains leading-edge security solutions for Akamai enterprise customers. Through collaboration with development, QA, DevOps, product, support, and sales engineering teams, our primary objective is to enable our business to produce top-tier secured products, enhance our security features, and ensure robust protection for our customers.
Partner With the Best
You will develop, maintain, and architect our cloud services and web applications, focusing on FedRAMP standards. Working on top-notch network security projects with highly skilled colleagues, facing challenges and a dynamic learning environment.
In this role you will be:

Developing new products and enhancing our Zero Trust solution with new capabilities and new types of deployment

Designing, developing, validating, maintaining, releasing, and operating Python and/or GoLang based backend services Angular, HTML, and CSS applications (20% frontend, 80% backend)

Reviewing and maintaining technical documents related to requirements, design, and architecture

Taking full ownership of your areas of work from design to deployment including CI/CD pipelines

Participating in technical meetings and bringing innovation into every solution shipped

Tackling and successfully resolving problems

Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:

5+ years of experience with a degree in Computer Science or a related field

Have experience in writing backend applications using Python / GoLang or similar

Have a good understanding of microservices architecture and have work experience with RESTful APIs

Be familiar with relational and/or non-relational databases, caching mechanisms, and service communications

Demonstrate understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes

Have expertise in TypeScript, including developing rich TypeScript web applications and creating reusable UI components

Have experience with UI technologies such as Angular, HTML5, CSS3, with familiarity in general responsiveness concepts

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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At Akamai, we’re curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you’ll thrive here.
Working for you
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.
About us
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.
Join us
Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!
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