Senior Software Engineer

Job Description Are you interested in how software can be made more secure? Would you like to work with data to enable teams to mitigate security risks? Join our Compute Technology Group (CTG) Engineering Division CTG Engineering team owns, develops and manages the solutions used by our engineers globally. These solutions help to run one of the largest compute systems in the world. We work closely with stakeholders to create innovative, powerful, scalable, highly reliable and secure systems at scale. Work with cutting edge technology You will gather requirements, design, implement, and maintain build and infrastructure tools used by development and test teams. You will follow industry best practices focusing on software security, reliability, and scalability. As a Software Engineer Senior, you will be responsible for: Creating new features and building tools from conception through release to ensure customers have an exceptional experience.Designing and development of highly scalable software that runs on the Akamai infrastructure.Developing software to enhance our engineering productivity by creating frontend and backend for our vulnerability management.Designing, maintaining, and scaling multi-platform build systems and optimizing build performance parallelism, and efficient dependency management across target architectures.Partnering with internal cross-functional teams to translate requirements into solutions to meet business objectives.Implementing new features, enhancing and optimizing existing features.Contributing ideas and knowledge to the process-improvement sessions team to facilitate continuous improvement of our products. Do What You Love To be successful in this role you will: Have +5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent.Display in-depth knowledge of Object Oriented programming like Python, Java, Go, C/C++.Demonstrate experience with multi-platform build generators (CMake, Bazel, Cargo, or Meson) and configuring C/C++ compilers (GCC/Clang).Have experience with toolchains, sysroots for multi-architecture compilation targets such as AArch64/ARMv8/ARMv9 architectures as well as traditional Intel and AMD architectures.Possess hands on experience with service-oriented architecture, REST, microservices, databases and SQL.Have experience with any CI/CD tools (i.e. Cloudbees CI/Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Gitlab etc ).Have a good understanding of security, compliance & SLA. 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. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like!