Senior Software Engineer

Are you passionate about distributed platforms?

And solving technology problems on a large scale?

Join our Data Experience team

Our platform transforms complex data into actionable customer insights, reporting, and real-time alerts. You will work across the full technology stack and software lifecycle from backend and frontend development to APIs, testing, CI/CD, observability, and production operations.

Partner with the best

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to play a key role in designing, building, and evolving our core Edge Experience platform. You will own end-to-end solutions: from understanding business requirements and technical design through implementation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement. As a senior member of the team, you will also influence technical direction, improve engineering practices, and. support other engineers through mentoring and knowledge sharing.

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

• Design & Build: Develop scalable, maintainable backend services, frontend applications, APIs, and integrations
• Work Across the Stack: Contribute seamlessly across backend, frontend, infrastructure, testing, CI/CD, and observability
• Own Solutions End-to-End: Take responsibility from initial requirements and technical design through implementation, deployment, and production support
• Drive Technical Decisions: Evaluate trade-offs and choose pragmatic solutions balancing scalability, reliability, maintainability, performance, and security
• Build for Reliability: Improve system resilience, observability, test automation, and overall production health
• Lead & Mentoring: Elevate team members through constructive code reviews, technical discussions, and knowledge sharing
• Collaborate: Work closely with Product Managers, Architects, and cross-functional teams to turn business needs into effective technical solutions

Do what you love

What We’re Looking For:

• Core Stack: Extensive experience designing and building production-grade applications using Java and Spring Boot, alongside hands-on frontend experience with Angular and TypeScript
• Architecture & Clean Code: Deep understanding of RESTful APIs, modular design, clean code practices, and distributed systems trade-offs
• DevOps & Observability: Practical experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, automated testing, and operating/troubleshooting production systems using tools like Grafana, Splunk, or similar
• Leadership & Ownership: Proven ability to take ownership of complex technical challenges, drive them to resolution, and support fellow engineers through technical leadership
• Communication & Pragmatism: Solid problem-solving mindset with the ability to clearly articulate technical decisions and business trade-offs in English

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.