Senior Software Engineer - API for Cloud Networking

Do you want to create new networking products and craft clean APIs that enable customers to better use the Akamai Cloud?

Are you a software engineering enthusiast who loves solving complex problems?

Join our Cloud Networking Products team!

Akamai Cloud is the world's most distributed cloud platform. Our customers range from frontier AI companies to scale-ups and established market leaders.We are looking for a new colleague to join our API team in the Cloud Networking Products division.

Partner with the best

Join us in shaping the next generation of cloud computing. This role provides an opportunity to make a significant impact on Akamai's growing cloud offerings. You must have a passion to get things done quickly and get them done right.

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

• Helping build out cloud platform functionality that sets up, manages, and protects networking in the Akamai Cloud.
• Designing and implementing clean, robust and performant REST APIs used by customers and internal teams.
• Developing and maintaining internal libraries and microservices used by various teams in Akamai.
• Designing, implementing, reviewing, documenting, and testing high quality Python code in close collaboration with your team.
• Reviewing and contributing to architectural and design documents authored by other teams.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have background with mainstream programming languages, such as Python, Java, C#, or Go.
• Have solid skills in writing, testing and understanding complex software.
• Have experience in designing and implementing REST APIs.
• Be experienced in technical design, product specifications reviews, projects and backlog planning.
• Be able to work productively with team members to identify and resolve issues in a collaborative manner.
• Have good communication skills, and experience in communicating with leadership and non-developer stakeholders.
• Be experienced in mentoring other developers.

Some of the tools and frameworks we use are Python, docker, pytest, MySQL, SQLAlchemy, Flask, Prometheus and Grafana. While we don't expect you to have experience with all of them, curiosity and a willingness to learn is a must. Experience with developing microservices is a nice bonus. We are a team with a diverse background and while the majority of the team members are located in Denmark, our main working language is English.

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.

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