Software Engineer

Akamai Technologies is hiring a Software Engineer I to build and operate high-reliability, high-throughput systems that manage customer security certificates and configurations. The role focuses on developing scalable systems and features, optimizing existing functionality, and collaborating with testing and SQA teams to deploy system components.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and developing systems capable of handling tens of thousands of concurrent operations
• Developing software to make efficient use of Relational Database Management Systems and NoSQL databases
• Creating new features from scratch, enhancing existing features and optimizing existing functionality
• Following good development methodology, including collaboration with testing and SQA departments to successfully deploy new system components

Requirements:

• Have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Possess academic or project-based training in Java and familiarity with Python, C++, or Bash in Linux/Unix environments
• Have hands-on project experience with Spring and Spring Boot frameworks for building scalable backend applications
• Have hands-on project experience with UI technologies through academic or practical project experience using Angular for front-end development solutions
• Demonstrate foundational understanding or project coursework in Terraform
• Demonstrate understanding of SQL, relational databases (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres), and NoSQL databases (e.g., Elasticsearch, Cassandra) through projects