Job Description

Do you want to build the next generation of Linode cloud storage?

Work with an amazing global team of innovators!

Join the Akamai Storage Engineering Team.

Our team is responsible for developing and maintaining Akamai's cloud storage platform. Our enterprise grade solution is an essential element to Akamai's Connected Cloud platform. We provide a scalable and secure storage solution for our customers to build their businesses. We are a diverse group of engineers located in the United States, India, UK and more.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Software Engineer you will focus on building highly usable, reliable and scalable storage solutions. Our platform empowers enterprises to create modern solutions to the world's problems.

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

• Creating new features, or enhance existing functionality, from design through testing and deployment.
• Working in an agile sprint environment to deliver quality software on a regular and consistent basis.
• Measuring and optimizing distributed system performance.
• Collaborating with our architecture, QA and operational teams to create a world class storage service.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 2+ years of relevant experience and a bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent.
• Have relevant experience in development using C++.
• Have extensive experience developing system software in a Linux environment
• Have a track record of delivering reliable and secure software.
• Have experience working in an agile development environment.

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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