Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
Join our Cloud Technology Group's Platform Security Engineering team! The Platform Security team shapes the security strategy for Akamai's Cloud Platforms. We improve the security posture of Akamai's platform by working holistically to resolve known issues and risks and providing tools, services, and support that help Akamai teams build new products and capabilities that efficiently fulfill diverse security and compliance requirements. We focus on enabling secure development while aligning with business and product goals. Become Akamai's next Senior Software Engineer. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop innovative security solutions for our platform components and services. Your focus will span key areas such as software and configuration deployments, databases, and control plane systems. You will play a critical role in engineering secure, scalable solutions across these domains.
Requirements
- 8 years of relevant software engineering and design experience and a BS degree or 5 years of relevant experience and MS degree
- Familiarity with security concepts such as Zero Trust and secure/confidential computing
- Demonstrate familiarity with networking concepts including TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, TLS/SSL
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code technologies (e.g. Terraform, Salt, etc.)
- Experience with software and hardware vulnerability management, and tools e.g. Tenable, Vulcan Cyber, Trivy, SonarQube, etc.
- Knowledge of compliance regimes such as PCI, ISO, SOC2, and FedRamp
Responsibilities
- Demonstrating engineering execution and technical expertise by delivering high-quality code and end-to-end security implementations, focusing on meeting defined objectives around scalability, availability, reliability, and performance.
- Supporting the full product life cycle - ideation, implementation, operation.
- Working across stakeholders - Product Management, Architecture, DevOps, and InfoSec to satisfy their needs/requirements in the software development life cycle.
- Solving complex security problems across both the platform and products.
Benefits
- healthcare
- 401K savings plan
- company holidays
- vacation (in the form of PTO)
- sick time
- family friendly benefits including parental leave
- employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
