Summary
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Join an engineering team responsible for highly distributed production infrastructure that improves the delivery of digital content. As a Software Engineer II, you will develop scalable software, support deployments across thousands of servers, analyze operational metrics and logs, and proactively identify reliability issues. The role combines software development with production engineering and large-scale distributed systems.
Highlights
Solve complex technical challenges on a globally distributed edge platform. The role offers exposure to large-scale production infrastructure, performance optimization, operational analysis, and collaboration with highly skilled engineers.
Description
Job Description
Would you like the opportunity to solve technical challenges?
Are you excited about working with cutting-edge technologies?
Join our team
Our Edge Platform division designs, develops, and operates technology that helps our customers improve their Web and Media content delivery.
Leveraging our deployment of servers around the world, we can uniquely solve technology problems with innovative solutions.
Make a difference to a vital part of our business
As a Software Engineer II at Akamai, you'll be responsible for developing performant and scalable software.
You will work with highly-skilled developers to manage the upgrade and deployment of a network of thousands of production servers.
As a Software Engineer II, you will be responsible for:
Collaborating with the product engineering team and/or working groupConducting regular Production Error Audits of operational metrics and deep-dive log analysis to proactively detect anomalies and error conditionsDesigning and implementing software tools that enhance productivity with respect to debugging, check-listing, and product metric analysisDesigning, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines that are key to building releases and deploying them to testing, staging, and production environmentsTriaging and analysis of customer escalations related to product operations and behaviour, including the identification, mitigation, and resolution of product bugsParticipating as a Subject-Matter Expert in Technical Incidents, performing root cause analysis, identifying and executing incident mitigationsFostering a culture that strives for consistent, iterative improvement to our processes, strategies, tools and frameworks
Do What You Love
To be successful in this role you will:
Have 2 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field/experienceBe interested in learning about internet technologies and optimizationsHave experience developing and monitoring backend applications, such as databases, queuing systems, understanding of system limits and impacts on performance/scaleHave experience with some technologies like Java, Angular, Spring Framework, NoSQL Databases, Realtime Service Delivery, containerization technologiesHave expertise with scripting languages in a Linux/Unix environment (eg: shell, Bash, Python, Ruby)Be comfortable with basic statistics and an interest in deeper analysis will be an assetBe enthusiastic about automation, and build tools to streamline development processes and reduce manual toil
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.
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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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Compensation
Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The base salary for this position ranges from 82,100 - 147,900 CAD/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications.
The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, RRSP, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.