Senior Software Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 19, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jun 25, 2026. Akamai scores A on the Alion truth index.
Would building the platform security capabilities of a large Cloud provider excite you?
Would you enjoy the opportunity to solve complex security challenges through innovative software development?
Join our Cloud Technology Group's Platform Security Engineering team!
The Platform Security team shapes the security strategy for Akamai's Cloud Platforms. We improve the security posture of Akamai's platform by working holistically to resolve known issues and risks and providing tools, services, and support that help Akamai teams build new products and capabilities that efficiently fulfill diverse security and compliance requirements. We focus on enabling secure development while aligning with business and product goals.
Become Akamai's next Senior Software Engineer
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop innovative security solutions for our platform components and services. Your focus will span key areas such as software and configuration deployments, databases, and control plane systems. You will play a critical role in engineering secure, scalable solutions across these domains.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Demonstrating engineering execution and technical expertise by delivering high-quality code and end-to-end security implementations, focusing on meeting defined objectives around scalability, availability, reliability, and performance.
- Supporting the full product life cycle - ideation, implementation, operation.
- Working across stakeholders - Product Management, Architecture, DevOps, and InfoSec to satisfy their needs/requirements in the software development life cycle.
- Socializing and building consensus around engineering decisions to provide stable and secure products through hands-on technical contribution.
- Solving complex security problems across both the platform and products.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 8 years of relevant software engineering and design experience and a BS degree or 5 years of relevant experience and MS degree
- Have programming (e.g. Python, Go) capabilities to develop new product ideas and evolve existing systems.
- Be familiar with security concepts such as Zero Trust and secure/confidential computing
- Demonstrate familiarity with networking concepts including TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, TLS/SSL
- Be familiar with Infrastructure as Code technologies (e.g. Terraform, Salt, etc.)
- Have experience with software and hardware vulnerability management, and tools e.g. Tenable, Vulcan Cyber, Trivy, SonarQube, etc.
- Have knowledge of compliance regimes such as PCI, ISO, SOC2, and FedRamp
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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We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
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Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $121,400 - $218,600/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.