Job Description

Join our highly skilled Security team

Our team is part of the Security organization, responsible for developing products and platforms focused on security. Our product is designed to provide cloud computing security, prevent data theft and mitigate large account takeover attempts. We build unique technology to handle petabytes of data and conduct billions of secure transactions daily

Partner with the best

As part of the Bot and Agent Control Engineering team, you will focus on building highly usable, reliable, scalable solutions. These solutions are for bot threat detection, protection and request risk detection. We allow our customers to better manage bot and agent traffic to help improve the internet for millions of people.

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

• Working on projects that improve our bot and request risk detection products to make Akamai a leader in bot detection and fraud prevention.
• Implementing new features from scratch.
• Enhancing existing features and optimizing existing functionality, from conception and design through testing and deployment.
• Working with our level 3 support to troubleshoot complex problems or any customer issues.
• Working on data analysis for web and mobile platforms.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 2+ years of overall SW development experience and a degree in Computer Science or other related discipline
• Have experience with web API development in a performant compiled language such as Java or Go
• Have a good understanding of HTTP and data formats such as JSON, XML
• Have experience or understanding how to integrate machine learning tools and integrating LLMs
• Be able to design suitable architectures, produce clean well-structured code and relevant test cases with the help of agentic development tools

Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $95,000 - $171,000/year; a candidate's salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.