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Our customers range from frontier AI companies to scale-ups and established market leaders.We are looking for a new colleague to join our API team in the Cloud Networking Products division.\nPartner with the best\nJoin us in shaping the next generation of cloud computing. This role provides an opportunity to make a significant impact on Akamai's growing cloud offerings. You must have a passion to get things done quickly and get them done right.\nAs a Software Engineer Senior, you will be responsible for:\nHelping build out cloud platform functionality that sets up, manages, and protects networking in the Akamai Cloud.\nDesigning and implementing clean, robust and performant REST APIs used by customers and internal teams.\nDeveloping and maintaining internal libraries and microservices used by various teams in Akamai.\nDesigning, implementing, reviewing, documenting, and testing high quality Python code in close collaboration with your team.\nReviewing and contributing to architectural and design documents authored by other teams.\nDo what you love\nTo be successful in this role you will:\nHave background with mainstream programming languages, such as Python, Java, C#, or Go.\nHave solid skills in writing, testing and understanding complex software.\nHave experience in designing and implementing REST APIs.\nBe experienced in technical design, product specifications reviews, projects and backlog planning.\nBe able to work productively with team members to identify and resolve issues in a collaborative manner.\nHave good communication skills, and experience in communicating with leadership and non-developer stakeholders.\nBe experienced in mentoring other developers.\nSome of the tools and frameworks we use are Python, docker, pytest, MySQL, SQLAlchemy, Flask, Prometheus and Grafana. While we don't expect you to have experience with all of them, curiosity and a willingness to learn is a must. Experience with developing microservices is a nice bonus. We are a team with a diverse background and while the majority of the team members are located in Denmark, our main working language is English.\nAbout us\nAt Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.\nWhether 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.\nOur focus is simple:\nCloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.\nSecurity: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.\nContent Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.\nAI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.\nAt 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.\nBenefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.\nFlexBase adapts to your job's needs\nAkamai'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.\nWe trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.\nConnect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like!","description_format":"text","description_chars":4002,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Denmark","iso":"DK","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cybersecurity","CDN"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-22T13:37:06Z"}],"liveness":{"score":88,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.88,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":3,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/akamai-senior-software-engineer-api-for-cloud-networking","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/akamai-senior-software-engineer-api-for-cloud-networking.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-23T22:30:08Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}