Senior Software Engineer

Akamai Technologies
Cambridge, United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 121,400 - 218,600 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Python","Go","Terraform","Salt","TCP/IP","HTTP","DNS","TLS/SSL"]

Join Akamai’s Platform Security Engineering team as a Senior Software Engineer building secure, scalable security solutions for cloud platform components and services. You’ll work across deployments, databases, and control plane systems with cross-functional partners, delivering end-to-end security implementations and shaping the development lifecycle.

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Akamai Technologies
Akamai Technologies
2 months ago

Senior Software Engineer

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Job Summary

Join Akamai’s Platform Security Engineering team as a Senior Software Engineer building secure, scalable security solutions for cloud platform components and services. You’ll work across deployments, databases, and control plane systems with cross-functional partners, delivering end-to-end security implementations and shaping the development lifecycle.
Location: Cambridge, United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Deliver high-quality code and end-to-end security implementations with focus on scalability, availability, reliability, and performance.
  • •Support the full product life cycle from ideation to operation.
  • •Collaborate across Product Management, Architecture, DevOps, and InfoSec to satisfy software development needs.
  • •Socialize and build consensus around engineering decisions to deliver stable, secure products.
  • •Solve complex security problems across platform and product domains.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 121,400 - 218,600 annually
Perks:Health Insurance401kPaid LeaveParental LeaveEquityEspp

Key Requirements

  • •8 years of relevant software engineering and design experience with a BS degree or 5 years with MS
  • •proficiency in programming languages (e.g., Python, Go) to develop new product ideas and evolve existing systems
  • •familiarity with Zero Trust and secure/confidential computing concepts
  • •familiarity with networking concepts (TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, TLS/SSL)
  • •experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies (e.g., Terraform, Salt) and vulnerability management tools (e.g., Tenable, Vulcan Cyber, Trivy, SonarQube)
Experience:8+ yearsSecurityCloudPlatform
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:PythonGoTerraformSaltTCP/IPHTTPDNSTLS/SSL
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonGoTerraformSaltTCP/IPHTTPDNSTLS/SSL

Company Brief

Akamai Technologies
Provides a global content delivery network (CDN) and cloud services to improve web and application performance, security, and delivery for enterprises, media companies, and cloud providers.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Cambridge, United States
Founded: 1998
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