Senior Software Engineer (Akamai Platform, WAF & CDN)

Equiniti•Woburn, MA

18h•$115,000 - $130,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Notified is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join its Web Reliability Team and serve as a technical leader for its Akamai ecosystem. This senior, hands-on role focuses on CDN and WAF management, web traffic analysis, bot mitigation, DDoS protection, and traffic optimization. The engineer will partner with application, infrastructure, security, and DevOps teams to deliver secure, scalable, highly available edge services that improve application performance and strengthen organizational resiliency. The role is based at Notified’s Woburn, Massachusetts office and offers in-person collaboration with flexibility to work from home. The position is benefits eligible, with a stated salary range of $115,000–$130,000, commensurate with experience, skills, and location.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field.
At least 5 years of relevant experience in CDN, web infrastructure, SRE, network/security engineering, or web security.
Strong understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, TLS, TCP/IP, caching, CDN architecture, and reverse proxies.
Hands-on experience with CDN, WAF, DDoS protection, and web security technologies.
Experience identifying and mitigating malicious bots, scrapers, scanners, abusive traffic, and DDoS attacks.
Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills in large-scale production environments.
Experience automating infrastructure and platform management using Terraform and APIs.
Strong scripting and software development skills using one or more languages.
Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting platforms.
Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills for complex distributed systems.
Experience working with Git-based source control and modern software development practices.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across engineering, security, and application teams.

Nice To Haves

Akamai certifications and advanced experience managing enterprise-scale Akamai deployments.
Experience with Akamai Application & API Protector, Bot Manager, EdgeWorkers, Edge DNS, Global Traffic Management (GTM), and API Security.
Experience managing thousands of properties, domains, certificates, or WAF policies across multiple business units.
Expertise in certificate automation and large-scale TLS management.
Experience building developer self-service portals and automation platforms.
Experience implementing SLOs, SLIs, reliability metrics, and operational excellence programs.
Knowledge of networking concepts including DNS, HTTP/S, TLS, load balancing, caching, and content delivery architectures.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and manage enterprise-scale Akamai CDN, WAF, DNS, Edge Security, and TLS/certificate management solutions.
Serve as the primary technical expert for Akamai platform administration, including application onboarding, policy management, traffic optimization, security configuration, and troubleshooting.
Configure, maintain, and optimize Akamai WAF policies, bot protection, rate controls, custom rules, and edge security controls.
Manage large-scale CDN delivery configurations, caching strategies, traffic routing, performance optimization, and high-availability architectures.
Administer and automate certificate lifecycle management, including provisioning, rotation, validation, renewals, and compliance requirements.
Develop Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform to automate Akamai configurations and infrastructure deployments.
Build integrations and automation using Akamai APIs and other platform APIs to reduce manual operational activities.
Design and implement self-service capabilities that enable development teams to securely and efficiently provision and manage edge platform resources.
Develop custom tooling, services, and automation frameworks using modern programming languages.
Establish and maintain SRE practices, including observability, monitoring, alerting, incident management, service-level objectives, and error budgets.
Collaborate with security teams to implement best practices for application protection, vulnerability mitigation, and edge security governance.
Perform performance analysis, capacity planning, root cause analysis, and continuous reliability improvements for internet-facing applications.
Participate in operational support, incident response, post-incident reviews, and reliability engineering initiatives.
Provide technical leadership and guidance for application onboarding, architecture reviews, and platform modernization efforts.