Senior Software Engineer – AIUC Group

Are you excited to work on innovative enterprise security products?
Are you passionate about securing user activity across browsers, desktop applications, and AI tools?
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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- AIUC team!
Seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build AI usage-control capabilities across SaaS, desktop, and AI agents, and own enterprise cloud-native microservices. You'll join a fast-growing, values-driven team tackling complex engineering challenges.
In this role you will be:
Designing advanced security controls to discover and manage shadow AI, GenAI, and AI agents across SaaS and desktop apps.
Taking ownership of a mission-critical, cloud-native microservice architecture that safeguards millions of workspaces globally, ensuring high availability and reliability.
Developing enforcement capabilities on the endpoint, including OS-level components as part of Akamai's endpoint agent.
Working across the stack, from OS-level components to our cloud 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
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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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