Does the opportunity to control the Internet traffic excite you?
Do you relish the opportunity to make a real impact?
Join our Cloud Technology team
Our Cloud Technology team takes ownership for creating tools critical for planning, building, maintaining, and operating our global platform. We design, develop, and deploy critical software that enables the Akamai platform for infinite scalability.
Join our Network Software Engineering group
You will have the opportunity to learn and understand how the Internet and Akamai work from a networking perspective and participate in designing and developing unique software projects. You will control IP traffic of terabits per second and adapt IP routing to the business needs.
As a Software Engineer II, you will be responsible for:

• Building tools and developing new features for existing software
• Developing tests, test automation, and testing frameworks, performance benchmarks
• Designing reliable, high-quality software that meets the needs of Cloud Technology for indefinite scalability of deployed network
• Creating reusable code and libraries
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure effective communication and code development
• Creating developer documentation for the tools that you write when applicable

Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:

• Demonstrate experience in writing code in Java
• Have working knowledge of frameworks such as Spring
• Demonstrate experience with other programming languages: Go, Python, C (Optionally)
• Understand networking concepts like IP addressing & IP routing, commonly-used protocols and types of networking equipment

Work in a way that works for you
Flex Base, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. Flex Base, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

Learn what makes Akamai a great place to work



We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.
At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.
Working for you
At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.
About us
Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.
Join us
Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!