Software Engineer II
Akamai · India · 2+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-07-18
Tech stack: Docker, Golang, Kubernetes, MongoDB, Python, Redis
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About the role
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Our Team builds and delivers 'zero trust security solutions' for enterprise customers. Our mission is to provide Threat protection and API Based Security solutions. We provide the simplest, fastest, and most intuitive way to enforce Zero Trust principles. We enable customers to proactively identify, block, and mitigate threats in their network and SAAS Applications.
Responsibilities:
- As Software Engineer II, you'll design, build, and deploy highly scalable, reliable, user-friendly solutions on our infrastructure. You'll collaborate with teams across Akamai to gather requirements, architect solutions, implement features, and perform unit testing. You'll also stay updated on emerging technologies and integrating them to enhance innovation and efficiency.
- Creating new features, or enhance existing functionality, from design through testing and deployment
- Working in an agile sprint environment to deliver quality software on a regular and consistent basis
- Measuring, maintaining and optimizing distributed system performance and performing bug fixes of existing applications
- Working in diverse nature of programming languages as needed
Qualifications:
- Have 2+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field
- Have demonstrated experience in developing applications, including API based Apps in Golang
- Understand fundamentals of Python along with container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Gain experience with Clickhouse, Redis, MongoDB, Postgres, Grafana, as familiarity with these tools can enhance your skill set.
- Demonstrate expertise in IP/TCP/UDP, DNS, HTTP, TLS, and related network protocols.
- Be passionate about solving large scale, secure distributed systems problems using Data Structures and complex Algorithms
Qualifications
- Have 2+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field
- Have demonstrated experience in developing applications, including API based Apps in Golang
- Understand fundamentals of Python along with container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Gain experience with Clickhouse, Redis, MongoDB, Postgres, Grafana, as familiarity with these tools can enhance your skill set.
- Demonstrate expertise in IP/TCP/UDP, DNS, HTTP, TLS, and related network protocols.
- Be passionate about solving large scale, secure distributed systems problems using Data Structures and complex Algorithms
Responsibilities
- As Software Engineer II, you'll design, build, and deploy highly scalable, reliable, user-friendly solutions on our infrastructure.
- You'll collaborate with teams across Akamai to gather requirements, architect solutions, implement features, and perform unit testing.
- You'll also stay updated on emerging technologies and integrating them to enhance innovation and efficiency.
- Creating new features, or enhance existing functionality, from design through testing and deployment
- Working in an agile sprint environment to deliver quality software on a regular and consistent basis
- Measuring, maintaining and optimizing distributed system performance and performing bug fixes of existing applications
- Working in diverse nature of programming languages as needed