Software Engineer

About the role

The Akamai Inference Cloud team is part of Akamai's Cloud Technology Group. We design, implement, and operate AI platforms enabling customers to run inference models and developers to create applications with unmatched performance, compliance, and economics. The Control Plane & Developer Experience team owns the API platform, developer tools, security, authentication, billing integration, and user-facing interfaces empowering developers.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining services for control plane including API endpoints, configuration management, and platform workflows
• Building customer-facing features that enable users to configure, manage, and interact with inference platform resources
• Writing well-tested, well-documented code and participating in code reviews to maintain engineering standards
• Collaborating with engineering and product teams to translate requirements into reliable platform capabilities
• Contributing to platform reliability through monitoring, debugging, and operational support of control plane services

Requirements

• Have a Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent
• Demonstrate proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Go, or JavaScript
• Show familiarity with RESTful APIs and basic cloud computing concepts
• Show familiarity with Git, GitHub workflows, and modern software development practices
• Show curiosity and a desire to learn cloud platform and API development patterns
• Possess solid problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative engineering team

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud services and API development
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle and agile methodologies
• Experience with version control systems (Git)
• Experience with cloud-based services (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with RESTful APIs and microservices architecture

Skills

• Programming languages: Python, Go, JavaScript
• Cloud services: AWS, Azure, GCP
• API development and testing
• Version control: Git
• Software development lifecycle and agile methodologies

Benefits

At Akamai, we support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits. FlexBase adapts to your job's needs. Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work. We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

Pay

For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $75,700 - $136,300/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).

Schedule

Not specified