Senior Backend Developer

Want to design systems that catch API flaws before attackers ever find them?

Join us

Join our API Security Group

Noname, now Akamai, revolutionizes API discovery and security through its SaaS platform. It offers unparalleled API visibility using runtime monitoring, advanced analytics, and machine learning. The platform processes vast, dynamic data streams, including structured metadata and unstructured payloads. This data variety enhances anomaly detection, insight extraction, and ongoing model optimization in production environments.

About the Role

Akamai's Active Testing product offers advanced API security, identifying vulnerabilities early in the application development process. It supports teams in implementing a Shift-Left Security Strategy, addressing risks and enhancing API protection from initial development stages. We are seeking an experienced Software Developer to contribute to our core engineering efforts.

In this role you will be:

• Designing, building and maintaining backend security services for an active API scanning platform that operates at scale.
• Driving system architecture, technical design, and code reviews for new and existing features.
• Implementing cutting edge security product that help protect business online.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• 5+ years of backend development experience with expertise (or equivalent backend language experience such as Go/Python).
• Have deep understanding of system design, architecture patterns, and data modeling for distributed services.
• Have solid experience with PostgreSQL and relational data design.
• Demonstrate experience building high-throughput, fault-tolerant systems and working with message queues, task schedulers, or stream processing.
• Have proven ability to tackle complex debugging, dive into complex existing codebases, maintain, and continuously improve them
• Have experience in CI/CD, observability (logging, tracing, metrics), and distributed systems monitoring.
• Be familiar with API technologies (REST, OpenAPI/Swagger, GraphQL) and practical understanding of active API scanning, ethical testing practices, or vulnerability detection
• Have passion for cybersecurity and working on cutting-edge security tooling, with a focus on responsible and ethical scanning.

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply. 

Learn what makes Akamai a great place to work

We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

About us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you

Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.

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