Senior Backend Developer

November 13

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Akamai Technologies

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Cloud Computing • Cybersecurity • Content Delivery

Akamai Technologies is a leading cloud services provider that specializes in delivering security, cloud computing, and content delivery solutions. It offers a range of services such as API security, DDoS protection, and performance optimization for web applications, ensuring secure and reliable user experiences. With a robust global infrastructure, Akamai empowers businesses to streamline their digital presence while safeguarding against various cyber threats and enhancing application performance.

5001 - 10000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2001-07

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of backend development experience with Node.js 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.

🏖️ Benefits

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