Full-Time
Akamai Engineer
Posted on 11/7/2025
Paytm Labs
10,001+ employees
Digital payments, loans, investments, and insurance
No salary listed
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
In Person
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- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 2-5 years of hands-on experience in configuring and managing Akamai CDN and WAF solutions in a production environment.
- Strong understanding of web protocols (HTTP/HTTPS), caching mechanisms, and DNS.
- Solid understanding of web application security principles and common attack vectors (OWASP Top 10).
- Experience with Akamai configuration tools and APIs.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Configuration and Deployment: Configure and deploy Akamai CDN services (e.g., Domain onboarding, delivery rules, caching policies, origin configurations) and WAF rulesets (e.g., security policies, custom rules, DOS and client reputation) based on application requirements and security guidelines.
- Production Support: Provide day-to-day operational support for Akamai CDN and WAF infrastructure, including monitoring performance, identifying and resolving issues, and implementing necessary changes.
- Performance Optimization: Analyze website performance metrics and implement Akamai CDN features and configurations to optimize website speed, reduce latency, and improve user experience.
- Security Implementation: Implement and manage Akamai WAF policies to protect web applications from various security threats, including OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, bot attacks, and DDoS attacks.
- Rule Management: Create, review, and maintain custom WAF rules and exceptions based on application-specific needs and emerging security threats.
- Colloration: Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to integrate Akamai services seamlessly into the existing infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
- Troubleshooting: Investigate and resolve complex issues related to CDN delivery, caching behavior, and WAF blocking in a timely and efficient manner.
- Monitoring and Alerting: Configure and maintain monitoring and alerting systems for Akamai services to proactively identify potential issues and ensure service availability.
- Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for Akamai configurations, deployment procedures, and troubleshooting steps.
- Knowledge Sharing: Stay up-to-date with the latest Akamai features and security trends and share knowledge with the team.
- Vendor Management: Interact with Akamai support for technical assistance and escalations as needed.
- Capacity Planning: Participate in capacity planning activities for Akamai services to ensure scalability and performance.
- Relevant Akamai certifications are a plus.
- Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python) is a plus.
Paytm Labs operates a large digital payments and financial services platform in India that serves individuals, small businesses, and institutions. Users can perform UPI payments, mobile recharges, bill payments, ticket bookings, digital loans, insurance, and investments through Paytm Money within a single app. The system works by processing user actions through UPI, payment gateways, and partner APIs, with revenue coming from transaction fees and commissions on financial services. Its aim is to give mass-market users easy access to a wide range of services while growing revenue by expanding payments processing and financial services through partnerships and scale.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Noida, India
Founded
2014
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Paytm reports third consecutive profit of $24.5M in December quarter, exceeding expectations.
- RBI grants in-principle online payment aggregator license to Paytm in August 2025.
- Pi platform expands internationally, adopted by Japan's largest mobile payment app PayPay.
What critics are saying
- PhonePe and Google Pay erode Paytm's market share below 20%, starving Labs' AI data.
- RBI denies payments aggregator license due to compliance lapses, halting merchant growth.
- Zomato's ₹2,048 Cr acquisition of ticketing divests non-core assets, endangering Labs unit.
What makes Paytm Labs unique
- Paytm Labs' Pi platform processes five billion rule evaluations daily, twice as fast as industry average.
- Pi enables real-time fraud decisions for high-volume fintechs like PayPay's 38 million users.
- Toronto-based R&D applies AI/ML to serve Paytm's 420 million consumers and 12 million merchants.
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Benefits
Health & Wellbeing - Your group health benefits are 100% funded by us, and start on your first day.
Travel the World - Even though we are currently working remotely, usually our employees make frequent international business-related trips while working on exciting projects.
Continuous Learning - We're passionate about learning and strive to constantly improve and innovate. We learn from others, our challenges & our successes.
Connection - In this virtual world, we stay connected through events like game nights, movie nights, arts & crafts sessions (like Origami), meditation sessions, and much more.
Autonomy & Flexibility - You get to define how you want to make an impact. We truly believe that great things happen when people are given the trust and freedom to create their own path.
Beautiful Office - Whenever we return back to the office, you’ll get to check out our awesome workspace, complete with pool and ping pong tables, a snack-filled kitchen, and tons of cozy work spaces.
Company News
One 97 Communications, which operates Paytm, has become majority Indian-owned, with domestic investors holding 51.9% as of December 2024. Mutual funds held 16.6% and insurance firms 5.1% after increasing their positions during the quarter. The ownership shift follows Paytm's third consecutive profitable quarter, reporting net profit of ₹2.3 billion and revenue of ₹21.9 billion, up 20% year-on-year. The change aligns with efforts to resolve regulatory issues. India's central bank banned Paytm from adding new online merchants in November 2022 over foreign direct investment compliance concerns related to Ant Group's stake. In August 2025, after Ant Group sold its remaining direct stake, the Reserve Bank of India granted in-principle approval for Paytm Payments Services to operate as an online payment aggregator, subject to a six-month compliance audit.
Paytm reported its third consecutive profitable quarter, posting net income of 2.25 billion rupees ($24.5 million) for the quarter ending December, exceeding analyst expectations of 1.97 billion rupees. Sales rose 20% to 22 billion rupees, meeting estimates. The Indian fintech company's performance reflects a business recovery driven by rising sales and cost reductions, following previous regulatory challenges. The results mark a sustained turnaround for the digital payments pioneer.
SAIF Partners sold a 1.86% stake in One97 Communications, Paytm's parent, for ₹1,556 crore, reducing their holding to 13.47%. Societe Generale acquired a 0.51% stake for ₹423.46 crore. Additionally, Motilal Oswal Mutual Fund divested a 1.22% stake in Kaynes Technology for ₹490 crore, affecting both companies' share prices.
India’s government is denying rumors of new fees on the country’s popular instant payment system.“Speculation and claims that the MDR will be charged on UPI transactions are completely false, baseless, and misleading,” the Indian Ministry of Finance wrote in a post on X Wednesday (June 11), referring to the idea of the “merchant discount rate” being applied to the country’s United Payments Interface system. “Such baseless and sensation-creating speculations cause needless uncertainty, fear and suspicion among our citizens,” the ministry said. “The government remains fully committed to promoting digital payments via UPI.”. According to a report from Reuters, the ministry’s announcement was bad news for Indian digital payments company Paytm, whose stock fell as much as 10% Thursday (June 12)
Paytm has received a show-cause notice from India’s financial crime-fighting agency. The notice pertains to an alleged violation of India’s Foreign Exchange Management Act, the FinTech said in a statement Saturday (March 1). The alleged violations have to do with Paytm’s acquisition of two subsidiaries — Little Internet Private Limited and Nearbuy India Private Limited — for the years 2015 to 2019, a period that predates Paytm’s ownership