Senior Software Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 23, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 22, 2026. Akamai scores A on the Alion truth index.
Are you excited about working with cutting-edge technologies?
Are you a software developer who loves solving complex problems?
Join our Edge Applications Engineering Team
Our Edge Applications Engineering Team is a group of dedicated professionals shaping Akamai's aspirations to create an industry-leading digital experience.
Partner with the best
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will help build features for our world class Media and Web Delivery products.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Developing business critical features for Media and Web Delivery Products
- Assisting in making design decisions based on performance, scalability, security, and future expansion.
- Converting high-level design specifications into low-level design and developing reusable and maintainable system software and applications
- Collaborating with other engineering teams to identify system dependencies and complete implementations under strict product release schedules.
- Communicating and collaborating with peers, management, architects, product and QA teams
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 5+ years of relevant experience and a bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
- Be well-versed with Java/Python programming language & have exposure to UI.
- Possess good problem solving and analytical skills and command of data structures and algorithms.
- Be able to design and develop secure applications that work at scale.
- Have great systems knowledge, programming, and debugging on the Linux Environment
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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