Senior Lead Software Engineer

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🕒 March 17

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $146.4k - $263.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

👻 Ghost score 41%

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Akamai Technologies

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5001 - 10000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

🏢 Enterprise

📱 Media

Cybersecurity • Enterprise • Media

Akamai Technologies is a global edge platform and cloud services company that delivers content delivery, edge computing, and security solutions. The company operates one of the world’s largest distributed networks to accelerate and protect web, media, and application traffic, offering products for content delivery, DDoS protection, API and app security, bot management, edge compute (serverless/edge functions), and AI inference at the edge. Akamai also provides enterprise-focused security services (zero trust, identity and access management, secure internet access) and cloud/AI infrastructure tools, and has recently expanded capabilities through acquisitions (for example LayerX) to add browser-based AI usage control.

📋 Description

• Lead a team of developers, build/maintain cloud services/web applications, focusing on FedRAMP standards • Guide technical direction, drive architectural decisions, and help the team deliver secure, scalable systems in a dynamic environment • Develop new products and enhancing the Zero Trust solution with new features • Design, develop, validate, maintain, release, and operate NodeJS, Python and/or GoLang based backend services • Review and maintain technical documents related to requirements, design, and architecture • Take full ownership of areas of work from design to deployment • Participate in technical meetings and bring innovation into every solution shipped • Tackle and successfully resolve difficult problems

🎯 Requirements

• Have 8+ years of experience with a degree in MTech/ME/BTech/BE in Computer Science or a related field • Have experience with modern authorization mechanisms and modern identity management concepts • Have experience in writing backend applications using Python / GoLang or similar • Have a good understanding of microservices architecture, scalable architectures, and have work experience with RESTful APIs • Be familiar with relational and non-relational databases, caching mechanisms, and service communications • Demonstrate understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes • Have experience with Azure/AWS/GCP or other cloud-based development and high scale systems • Be eligible to obtain a Secret Security Clearance

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401K savings plan • Company holidays • Vacation (in the form of PTO) • Sick time • Family friendly benefits including parental leave • Employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness