Senior II Software Engineer

Role Summary

Are you passionate about building reliable and scalable cloud platforms?

Would you enjoy supporting cybersecurity products through advanced data and AI capabilities?

Join our Akamai Guardicore Data and AI Platform Team!

The team develops and manages a cloud-native Data and AI Platform enabling analytics, insights, and AI-driven features for Akamai Guardicore Segmentation. It processes extensive security and contextual data, supporting customers in understanding environments, minimizing risks, and preventing threat proliferation.

Partner with the best

As part of our team, you will focus on building highly reliable, scalable and cost-effective storage solutions. Our platform empowers enterprises to create modern solutions to the world's problems.

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for

• Designing and operating secure, scalable, and highly available Kubernetes platforms
• Building GitOps-based deployment processes using Argo CD, Helm, and related technologies
• Developing reusable cloud infrastructure and automation using Terraform
• Improving CI/CD, developer experience, and self-service platform capabilities
• Enhancing platform reliability, observability, security, performance, and cost efficiency
• Leading complex production investigations and driving long-term improvements
• Collaborating with DevOps, SRE, software, data, AI, and security engineering team
• Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will

• Demonstrate expertise in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or cloud infrastructure with proven ability to optimize and manage systems effectively.
• Demonstrate extensive production expertise with Kubernetes, containers, and Helm.
• Have experience with GitOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code
• Have experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
• Have scripting or programming experience using Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages
• Demonstrate technical leadership, ownership, and the ability to drive cross-team initiatives

About the Company

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.

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