Senior Software Engineer Saltstack

Akamai Technologies; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 2,500,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies in Bengaluru seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join the Compute Lab Team, building scalable lab infrastructure for Akamai Cloud. You will contribute to deployment stacks, observability, and performance improvements while collaborating across global teams.

You will work with IaC, container orchestration (Kubernetes/Nomad), Python-based services (Flask/Django), and monitoring tools (Prometheus/Grafana) to ensure reliable, scalable lab environments.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of professional experience with a bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Experience with IaC automation, Terraform, Ansible, and Vault.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes and Nomad for container orchestration.
• Fluency in Python and RESTful API frameworks like Flask or Django.
• Experience with monitoring: Prometheus and Grafana.
• Comfort with Linux, networking, and CLI usage.

Responsibilities

• Develop deployment stacks to build new test datacenters in Lab Platform.
• Design monitoring solutions using observability tooling for Lab services.
• Identify bottlenecks in deployment/config frameworks and improve reliability.
• Collaborate with engineers and architects to ship high-quality products.
• Work in a global, collaborative team with open communication.

Skills

IaC automation

Terraform

CrossPlane

Ansible

SaltStack

Puppet

HashiCorp Vault

Kubernetes

Nomad

Docker Compose

Tilt

Kind

Linux concepts

Networking

Jenkins

GitHub

Prometheus

Grafana

Python

RESTful APIs

Flask

Django

AI tooling

MySQL

Postgres

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Job Description:

Are you a Linux / Cloud Enthusiast looking for an opportunity?

Can you help Developers build, test and deliver quality products?

Join our Compute Lab Team!

The Compute Lab Team mission is to accelerate innovation by making computing simple, scalable, accessible, and affordable for all. We provide the infrastructure and services that enable our developers to build the next generation of the Akamai Cloud.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will collaborate with development and site reliability teams in building and managing mission-critical critical lab infrastructure services and environments for the Akamai Cloud platform. Youll contribute directly to scaling our infrastructure and management tools driving development and testing improvements felt throughout our entire organization.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Developing the deployment stack responsible for building new test datacenters on the Lab Platform.
• Designing monitoring solutions with new and existing observability tooling to ensure the health of our Lab Services.
• Identifying bottlenecks with deployment and configuration frameworks, proposing solutions that improve performance and reliability.
• Collaborating with senior engineers, architects, and experts to develop solutions enhancing speed and assurance in shipping products effectively.
• Working on a highly collaborative global team that values feedback and open communication

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 5 to 8 years of experience and a Bachelors degree or its equivalent in work experience.
• Be experienced with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation/Terraform/CrossPlane, configuration management systems such as Ansible, SaltStack, or Puppet, secrets management HashiCorp Vault.
• Possess experience in container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, Nomad and dev-environment tooling (e.g. Kind, Docker Compose, Tilt).
• Demonstrate an understanding of Core Linux concepts, networking and skills in using the command line where appropriate
• Be able to build & configuring Jenkins (GitHub), use Prometheus and Grafana to monitor, visualize, and generate metrics for system alerting.
• Have demonstrated background using Python and RESTful API frameworks, including Flask and Django
• Be able to use AI tooling for troubleshooting, comfortable working with relational databases such as MySQL or Postgres.

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether youre streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, were the engine behind the scenes. We provide the worlds 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 worlds biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the worlds most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we dont just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And were the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

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