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Software Engineer - SDN
Akamai
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Posted Oct 23
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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 You will join our unique team of developers of the Akamai own distributed software-defined networking solution. You will have the opportunity to learn and understand how the Internet and Akamai work from a networking perspective and participate in designing and developing unique software projects. You will control IP traffic of terabits per second and adapt IP routing to the business needs. 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 experience in writing code in Java. Have working knowledge of frameworks such as Spring. Demonstrate experience with other programming languages: Go, Python, C (Optionally). Understand networking concepts like IP addressing & IP routing, commonly-used protocols and types of networking equipment. 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. FlexBase adapts to your job's needs Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work. We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like! Job Info Job Identification 4265 Job Category Software Engineer Posting Date 10/23/2026 Locations Centrum Biurowe Vinci, Krakow, Malopolskie, 31-323, PL (Hybrid)