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Are you excited to work on innovative enterprise security products?
Are you passionate about securing user activity across browsers, desktop applications, and AI tools?
Partner with the best
LayerX (now Akamai) turns any browser or desktop into a secure workspace. We protect your apps, data, and devices from web risks and AI leaks in real time, with zero impact on user experience.
Akamai Workforce Protector- SEB team!
We are looking for a Senior Engineer to develop complex browser security capabilities and own cloud-native microservices that protect millions of enterprise workspaces globally. You will join a growing, values-driven team, contribute to our design forum, and solve hard engineering challenges.
In this role you will be:
Designing and developing complicated security capabilities to defend against evolving web-based threats, shadow AI, and data leakage in the browser.
Taking ownership of a mission-critical, cloud-native microservice architecture that safeguards millions of workspaces globally, ensuring high availability and reliability.
Developing Akamai's browser extension, DLP and policy engines, and IdP/SIEM integrations.
Working across the stack, from our browser extension and shared engines to our backend services and React-based management console.
Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including DevOps, Product Management, and Security Experts, to rapidly release secure, scalable code multiple times per day.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
Have at least 4 years of professional software engineering experience.
Have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, an equivalent technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Be highly proficient in at least one of the following: Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, or Rust.
Have hands-on experience in data modeling and relational databases.
Have experience building complex data pipelines and high-throughput architectures, specifically utilizing event-streaming technologies like Kafka.
Demonstrate experience developing cloud-native microservices using modern cloud vendors (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
Be familiar with containerization, orchestration, and GitOps workflows using Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and ArgoCD.
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
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.
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Work arrangement
Hybrid
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