Senior Software Engineer (Saltstack)

Akamai Career Site; India; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

FlexBase program

Benefits at Akamai

Job summary

Akamai invites a Senior Software Engineer to join the Compute Lab Team in India. You will help developers build, test, and deliver quality products by shaping the deployment stack for new lab datacenters and ensuring our Akamai Cloud infrastructure scales safely.

You will design monitoring solutions with observability tooling, identify bottlenecks in deployment frameworks, and collaborate with senior engineers to accelerate shipping of reliable software across our globally distributed teams.

Qualifications

• 5 to 8 years of experience and a Bachelors degree or its equivalent in work experience.
• Experience with IaC automation and Terraform/CrossPlane.
• Proficient with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Nomad) and dev-environment tooling (Kind, Docker Compose, Tilt).
• Solid understanding of Core Linux concepts, networking, and CLI usage.
• Experience with Jenkins (GitHub), Prometheus, Grafana for monitoring and alerting.
• Background in Python and RESTful APIs (Flask, Django).
• Comfort using AI tooling for troubleshooting and working with MySQL or Postgres.

Responsibilities

• Developing the deployment stack for building new test datacenters on the Lab Platform.
• Designing monitoring solutions with observability tooling to ensure health of Lab Services.
• Identifying bottlenecks in deployment/configuration frameworks and proposing solutions.
• Collaborating with senior engineers, architects, and experts to accelerate shipping of reliable software.
• Working within a highly collaborative global team emphasizing feedback and open communication.

Skills

IaC Automation

Terraform

CrossPlane

Ansible

SaltStack

Puppet

Vault

Kubernetes

Nomad

Kind

Docker Compose

Tilt

Linux concepts

Networking

Command Line

Jenkins

GitHub

Prometheus

Grafana

Python

REST APIs

Flask

Django

MySQL

PostgreSQL

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

CrossPlane

Ansible

SaltStack

Puppet

Vault

Kubernetes

Nomad

Kind

Docker Compose

Tilt

Jenkins

GitHub

Prometheus

Grafana

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Job description

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

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

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. You'll 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 Bachelor's 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 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.

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Job Info

• Job Identification 4234
• Posting Date 11/12/2026, 06:15 AM
• Apply Before 11/14/2026, 08:30 AM