Senior Platform Software Engineer

Are you excited to work with innovative security products?

Do you enjoy creating innovative and strategic solutions to solve complex problems

Guardicore (now Akamai Enterprise Security!) is changing the way organizations protect their data centers and clouds from advanced threats – and that starts with our people. Our team boasts some of the most talented and experienced cyber security and data center experts in the field. We’re always looking for new people to challenge us, inspire us, and make us better.

What does our team do?

We are looking for a highly motivated senior software engineer who will join our R&D and be part of a strong team of talented developers. The Platform team is a unique and strong development team responsible for developing complex application infrastructure, ensuring our product’s efficient and seamless growth, delivering a direct and meaningful impact to our customers and R&D teams.

What you will do :

• Lead new infrastructure initiatives and problem solving from requirements to delivery in main components in our system, all-across the product areas and technologies.
• Write reliable, efficient, secure, and scalable code
• Address complex software challenges at the forefront of today's technology, optimize and put a lot of emphasis on performance and security
• Drive team’s technical roadmap and mentor more junior developers
• Collaborate with different engineering and other teams, to identify areas where infrastructure initiatives could contribute to our development efficiency and scalability
• Communicate with our customers and leave a favorable impact
• Be an integral part of our thriving culture and take an active part in the constant improvement process of our team and organization.

Requirements :

5+ Years of software development experience

BSc in computer science or related degree - big advantage

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, 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. FlexBase, 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.

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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 :

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.

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!

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