Software Engineer – Cybersecurity/SDN

Akamai Career Site; Polska; Remote; PLN 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Cloud Technology team in Krakow. You will contribute to an SDN‑focused platform, developing tools, tests, and scalable software that protects and optimizes vast networks and traffic flows.

You will design, implement, and document features, collaborate with cross‑functional teams, and help drive automated configurations and telemetry, ensuring robust performance across Akamai’s global edge and cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Fluent in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Java, Go, Python, C++).
• Experience maintaining software running on Linux systems.
• Understand networking concepts such as IP addressing and routing, and basic DDoS mitigation concepts.
• Experience building API‑driven control systems for automated network configuration.

Responsibilities

• Build tools and develop new features for existing software.
• Develop tests, test automation, and testing frameworks, performance benchmarks.
• Design reliable, high‑quality software for indefinite scalability of deployed networks.
• Create reusable code and libraries.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure effective communication and code development.

Skills

Programming languages

Linux

Tools

Networking

Job description

Does the opportunity to control the Internet traffic excite you?

Do you relish the opportunity to make a real impact?

Join our Cloud Technology team!

Our Cloud Technology team takes ownership for creating tools critical for planning, building, maintaining, and operating our global platform. We design, develop, and deploy critical software that enables the Akamai platform for infinite scalability.We are looking for a highly motivated software engineer. You will join our unique team of developers of the Akamai own distributed software-defined networking solution.

Partner with the best

This role involves learning cloud infrastructure and Akamai networking, designing software projects, and scaling distributed SDN solutions. Responsibilities include implementing inbound and outbound DDoS protection, managing lifecycle upgrades, expanding flow telemetry, and developing API-driven control systems. You will create automated configurations to safeguard extensive IP traffic flows across backbone connectivity layers and datacenter fabric.

As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Building tools and developing new features for existing software.


• Developing tests, test automation, and testing frameworks, performance benchmarks.


• Designing reliable, high-quality, usable software that meets the needs of Cloud Technology for indefinite scalability of deployed network,


• Creating reusable code and libraries.


• Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure effective communication and code development.


• Creating developer documentation for the tools that you write when applicable.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Demonstrate fluency in writing code in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Java, Go, Python, C++).


• Demonstrate knowledge and experience in maintaining software running on Linux.


• Understand networking concepts like IP addressing & IP routing, commonly-used protocols and types of networking equipment.


• Demonstrate basic understanding of DDoS mitigation methods and network flow telemetry.


• Demonstrate experience building API-driven control systems for automated network configuration and attack containment.

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.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

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We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

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Location: Centrum Biurowe Vinci, Krakow, Malopolskie, 31-323, PL (Remote)