Senior Cloud Applications Engineer

Job Description

Are you excited to work with innovative security products?

Do you enjoy creating innovative and strategic solutions to solve complex problems?

Join our SaaS Platform team

Guardicore (now Akamai!) revolutionizes protection against advanced threats, starting with our people. Our team includes some of the most talented and experienced cybersecurity experts in the field. We seek new people to inspire us, bring fresh ideas, and enhance our capabilities.

What does our team do?

We are looking for a Senior software engineer to join our SaaS platform team.

In this role, you will develop distributed cloud-native applications with a focus on scalability, availability, and security.

You will take part in designing and building microservices, operators, and backend components running on GCP Cloud Run, Kubernetes, and Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE).

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

• Developing cloud-native microservices and backend components in Golang

• Building and maintaining SaaS infrastructure and services for scale and resiliency

• Working with GCP, Kubernetes, and Linode, including development of Kubernetes operators

• Using Helm, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and other modern tooling to support deployment and automation

• Collaborating with other engineers, architects, and product managers to drive features end-to-end

• Taking ownership of system design decisions and contribute to the long-term technical roadmap

Do What You Love

To be successful in this role you will:

• 5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

• Have extensive knowledge and experience of GCP stacks, Linux, cloud technologies, and network Infrastructure

• Have experience with CI/CD methodologies and best practices (GitHub/CircleCI Actions)

• Have experience in container technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes

• Demonstrate prior experience building production systems, highly available and service-oriented

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.

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