Senior 2 Software Engineer - Compute, Backend/Python

Do you want to build the next generation of cloud services?

Would you like an opportunity to effect change at a leading technology organization?

Join our Compute Team!

Our Team's mission is to accelerate innovation by making computing simple, scalable, accessible, and affordable. We provide the infrastructure and services that enable developers to build next-generation applications. We host hundreds of thousands of virtual machines and petabytes of data for our customers worldwide.

Partner with the best

Akamai's growing, agile Compute Platform Team to build a scalable control plane for large-scale fleet automation in a high-impact environment that rewards innovation and technical excellence.

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

• Designing, building, and scaling a Fleet Operations Platform to maintain thousands of compute machines and millions of customer workloads.
• Providing technical expertise and leadership for your team.
• Working on the software running on the hosts in our data centers.
• Improving internal processes and systems on a consistent basis.
• Developing thorough and largely automated test suites for functional and regression testing to ensure fault tolerance and error handling.
• Troubleshooting upgrade failures, diagnose performance bottlenecks, and resolve edge cases across the hypervisor and Linux host stack.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have extensive, relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Be proficient in Python/Go for backend automation, REST APIs, and CLI scripting, with SQL database experience for state and metadata tracking.
• Possess experience designing, building, and scaling microservices architectures in production environments.
• Demonstrate your experience working with Linux based OS, Virtualization, KVM and Live Migrations.
• Demonstrate your experience with evaluating data using statistics or data
• Can effectively do troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
• Have the ability to discuss abstract software architectures from ideas through implementation and creatively apply domain experience to solve technical challenges.
• Be a collaborative team player who excels at joint problem-solving within an agile/Scrum environment.

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.