Staff Cloud Engineer - Edge CDN & WAF Orchestrator

Intuit; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 189,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit is hiring a Senior to Staff Software Engineer with deep Akamai CDN & WAF expertise, a strong networking foundation, and hands-on software engineering skills. You will help build and manage a CDN/WAF paved road that onboards public endpoints and recommends optimized edge configurations, while engineering self-service APIs and UIs for edge, DNS, and certificates.

The role requires building scalable platforms, owning DNS/certificate lifecycles, and providing 24x7 incident response.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent work-related experience.
• Deep hands-on Akamai expertise with Kona, App & API Protector, WAF.
• Strong networking and troubleshooting of TCP/IP, HTTP/2, DNS, TLS, and cloud routing knowledge.
• Proficient in Python, Golang, React, and Java; experience building REST APIs and UIs.
• Experience with IaC (CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform) and GitOps.

Responsibilities

• Build the CDN/WAF paved road, automate onboarding of public endpoints to Akamai, with tooling that recommends and optimizes edge/CDN configurations for development teams.
• Engineer & tune edge security policies, WAF, bot-management, client-reputation, and rate-control policies (Akamai Kona / App & API Protector and AWS WAFv2).
• Design self-service platforms, engineer and support self-service applications, APIs, and UIs for edge, DNS, and certificate workflows.
• Own DNS & certificate lifecycle, support and improve DNS, SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle (ACM/Venafi/DigiCert, including mTLS), CDN, and network-connectivity solutions.
• Troubleshoot the full packet path, diagnose connectivity issues across the edge and cloud network (CDN origin/SiteShield, DNS resolution, TLS, Transit Gateway routing).
• Automate compliance & cost, engineer policies to report or auto-remediate compliance and cost issues, and drive proactive performance tuning of Cloud Platform services.
• Encode knowledge into agents, build agentic and self-service tooling that turns team knowledge into reusable patterns so standards travel with the automation.
• Provide 24x7 incident response for critical edge/Platform Services, including off-hours migration and cutover windows.
• Partner with vendors & internal teams, work closely with vendors (e.g., Akamai) and internal development teams to define operational support models and escalation paths.
• Mentor & influence, stay abreast of new technologies, recommend best practices, and mentor engineers.

Education

BS in Computer Science or equivalent work-related experience

Tools

Akamai Kona

App & API Protector

WAFv2

SiteShield

EdgeWorkers

PAPI/{OPEN} APIs

Python

Golang

React

Java

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Jenkins

CodeBuild

GitOps

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Intuit is hiring a Senior to Staff Software Engineer with deep Akamai CDN & WAF expertise, a strong networking foundation, and hands-on software engineering skills. You will help build and manage a CDN/WAF paved road that onboards public endpoints and recommends optimized edge configurations, while engineering self-service APIs and UIs for edge, DNS, and certificates.

The role requires building scalable platforms, owning DNS/certificate lifecycles, and providing 24x7 incident response.