Senior Platform Software Engineer

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Job Description

Are you excited to work with innovative security products?

Guardicore (now Akamai Enterprise Security!) is changing the way organizations protect their data centers and clouds from advanced threats – and that starts with our people. Our team boasts some of the most talented and experienced cyber security and data center experts in the field. We’re always looking for new people to challenge us, inspire us, and make us better.

What does our team do?

We are looking for a highly motivated senior software engineer who will join our R&D and be part of a strong team of talented developers. The Platform team is responsible for developing complex application infrastructure, ensuring our product’s efficient and seamless growth, and delivering a direct impact to our customers and R&D teams.

What You Will Do

• Lead infrastructure initiatives and solve problems from requirements to delivery across product areas and technologies.
• Write reliable, efficient, secure, and scalable code.
• Address complex software challenges, optimize for performance and security.
• Drive the team’s technical roadmap and mentor junior developers.
• Collaborate with engineering and other teams to improve development efficiency and scalability.
• Communicate with customers and positively influence their experience.
• Participate in the ongoing improvement of our team and organization’s culture.

Requirements

• 5+ Years of software development experience.
• Experience in E2E design and implementation of features in large-scale backend and infrastructure projects.
• Strong experience with Backend Development using Python, Go, or similar languages.
• Deep understanding of Networking and Network Security.
• Experience with Linux-based systems.
• Experience in high-scale production environments.
• Experience working with Cloud environments.
• Experience with technologies like Ansible, HAProxy, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Docker, or virtualization infrastructure.
• Security development experience is a significant advantage.

Advantages include a BSc in computer science or related fields, experience with C, and Kubernetes or microservices architectures.

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