Jobs at Akamai Technologies

Owns VM and fleet test strategy, hypervisor validation, performance quality gates, and systems-level testing for an IaaS platform. Designs reproducible bare-metal-like environments, develops automated benchmarks and regression gates, validates SLOs and deployment safety, and builds test harnesses in Go, Python, and Perl. The role requires deep expertise in KVM/QEMU/libvirt, Linux internals, x86 and ARM architectures, performance analysis, statistical testing, and CI/CD tooling.

Design, build, and scale backend data services, APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and high-volume data pipelines. Optimize PostgreSQL and Oracle databases, improve reliability and performance across regions, diagnose complex production issues, and mentor engineers. Partner with DBA and SRE teams while providing hands-on technical leadership and owning services end to end.

Designs and maintains scalable build and deployment pipelines, enforces release quality gates, resolves environment and infrastructure issues, and integrates AI agents into CI/CD workflows for automated testing, log analysis, production monitoring, and incident triage.

Develop and enhance Akamai EdgeWorkers applications and services for distributed edge computing. Responsibilities include shaping user-focused UI, CLI, and API experiences; writing Java and TypeScript code; participating in code reviews; troubleshooting production issues; implementing automated tests; debugging distributed Linux systems, microservices, and containerized environments; and collaborating across technical and non-technical teams.

Serves as the primary security services contact for customers, guiding the integration and effective use of Akamai web security products. Collaborates with cross-functional and sales teams to understand customer needs, tune solutions, implement security and web technologies, and improve delivery methodologies. Requires expertise in internet protocols, CDN operation, web development, IT systems, security practices, consultative customer engagement, and project management. Must be able to obtain and maintain Canadian government clearance.

Manage end-to-end technical customer engagements for global brands using the Akamai platform. Advise customers on web architecture, integration solutions, performance, security strategy, and best practices. Collaborate with account teams and internal stakeholders to deliver large technical projects, improve integration quality, and strengthen customer relationships. Communicate complex technical information clearly through presentations and customer-facing consulting.

Manages end-to-end technical customer engagements and projects for Akamai’s security, media, and performance platform. Collaborates with account teams to evaluate architectures, deliver solutions, improve integration efficiency, ensure customer success, and establish long-term strategies. Partners cross-functionally, facilitates stakeholder communication, contributes to internal projects, and develops best practices for service delivery and technical integrations.

Provides end-to-end security consultancy, customer integration, and technical support for Akamai solutions. Serves as the primary customer contact, leads integrated account teams, improves service delivery, identifies risks and enhancements, and communicates with customers, partners, and internal teams. Requires strong knowledge of network or web security technologies, customer-facing IT experience, technical project delivery skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities.

Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of scalable, low-latency backend services and REST APIs using Python, Flask, and SQLAlchemy. Establish API standards, optimize databases, implement authentication and observability, and design fault-tolerant distributed systems. Lead technical reviews, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams on API contracts and integration workflows. The role also requires expertise in security, CI/CD, cloud platforms, containerization, testing, event-driven architectures, and emerging AI tooling.

Defines test strategies and performance quality gates while automating testing, deployment, rollback, and validation for scalable virtualized server platforms. Develops unit, integration, and end-to-end test frameworks; creates test plans for microservices; troubleshoots deployment issues; writes deployment scripts; and collaborates with engineering teams on integration testing and environment improvements.

Develop and maintain automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing frameworks for cloud-native platform services. Investigate deployment issues, troubleshoot root causes, create test plans, validate rollback strategies, and automate service deployments. Collaborate with engineering teams on testing changes and integration environments involving Kubernetes, Service Mesh, APIs, and control-plane technologies. Apply Linux, networking, scripting, performance, and SLO monitoring expertise to ensure scalable, reliable, and secure deployments.

Automate software testing, deployment, and validation for scalable cloud-native platform services. Responsibilities include developing unit, integration, and end-to-end test frameworks; troubleshooting deployment issues; creating test plans; validating rollback strategies; collaborating on integration testing; and scripting platform-service deployments across diverse environments and architectures.

Develop and maintain automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing frameworks for cloud-native platform services. Investigate deployment failures, troubleshoot cross-environment and architecture-specific issues, create test plans, validate rollback strategies, collaborate across engineering teams, and automate platform deployments. The role requires strong Python, Pytest, Linux, Bash, virtualization, CI/CD, and modern software development lifecycle expertise.

Leads and mentors a global Site Reliability Engineering team supporting cloud-based Identity and Access Management services. Responsibilities include managing team performance, shaping product roadmaps, driving technical innovation, operating in an Agile environment, developing best practices, and diagnosing system reliability and performance. The role requires extensive experience with large-scale distributed systems, cloud-native deployments, containers, scripting, and software development lifecycles.

Develop and maintain manual and automated integration, functional, load, and performance tests for cloud APIs and identity services. Build Python automation frameworks, improve CI/CD infrastructure, review automation code, and partner with globally distributed engineering teams. Ensure Akamai cloud systems meet specifications for resilience, security, scalability, and release readiness. Troubleshoot Kubernetes applications and contribute to deployment planning.

Develop and maintain manual and automated integration, functional, load, and performance tests for cloud APIs and identity management services. Build Python automation frameworks, contribute to CI/CD infrastructure, review automation code, and validate system resilience, security, scalability, and specifications. Collaborate with globally distributed developers, SDET engineers, architects, and program managers while supporting release readiness and deployment decisions.

Develop and maintain manual and automated integration, functional, load, and performance tests for Akamai cloud APIs and identity services. Build Python automation frameworks, contribute to CI/CD infrastructure, review test automation, validate system scalability and security, and support release readiness. Collaborate with globally distributed developers, SDET engineers, architects, and program managers while testing Kubernetes-based cloud applications.

Leads and develops a team of IAM engineers, providing technical direction for backend architecture, distributed systems, engineering standards, and full project delivery. Partners with product, QA, SRE, and senior leadership to deliver customer-facing IAM platforms. Responsibilities include mentoring, hiring, onboarding, performance management, requirements clarification, execution oversight, and career development. Requires extensive engineering experience, Python knowledge, IAM expertise, distributed systems experience, Agile and SDLC understanding, and prior leadership experience.

Develop and enhance highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant IAM services on Akamai’s Compute Platform. Design resilient software, build tools for seamless deployment and operation, improve IAM features and customer experience, and research emerging technologies. The role requires extensive Linux software development, Python or Java expertise, secure software delivery, IAM knowledge, and experience with enterprise tools including Git, JIRA, and Jenkins.

Develop and manage mission-critical infrastructure services for Akamai’s cloud lab platform. Build deployment stacks for test datacenters, design observability and monitoring solutions, improve deployment and configuration performance, and collaborate with engineering, architecture, and site reliability teams. The role requires strong Infrastructure as Code, Python, REST API, container orchestration, development-environment tooling, and relational database experience.