Senior Backend Engineer

Would you enjoy protecting the world's leading brands?

Do you enjoy problem-solving and coding in a scalable environment?

Join our highly skilled Microsegmentation Engineering Team

Our team is part of the Enterprise Security Engineering (ESG) organization and the AI Engineering group. We build microsegmentation capabilities that control and limit how systems communicate within our customers' environments, helping prevent attacks from spreading inside the network. In addition to developing core product capabilities, our team is responsible for driving innovation, proposing initiatives, and building AI-powered solutions that are deployed in real production systems.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and optimize large-scale, distributed solutions. You'll work on new features from idea to production and solve complex engineering problems in a highly collaborative environment.

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

• Collaborating with stakeholders from across the organization
• Overseeing the development of features from design to implementation
• Breaking down large features into incremental deliverables, driving both execution and vision
• Serving as a role model for other engineers by developing high-quality code
• Balancing hands-on engineering with technical leadership through design/code reviews and mentoring
• Leveraging AI and modern engineering practices to accelerate the pace of development

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• Demonstrate extensive backend engineering expertise using Python.
• Design and maintain production-grade services within distributed environments to ensure reliability, scalability, and optimal performance.
• Work with Python, Kubernetes, SQL, NoSQL databases, and continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines effectively and efficiently.
• Decompose complex tasks into clear, actionable steps while ensuring clarity and precision in defining work items.
• Demonstrate technical expertise while maintaining a strategic perspective to effectively address complex challenges and drive impactful outcomes.
• Build applications using Rust; experience in this area is a valuable addition to the role.

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.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.

We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.