Software Engineer II - Ottawa, Canada

Would you like the opportunity to solve technical challenges?

Do you want to work with an amazing team of innovators?

Join the Akamai Engineering team!

Our Edge Platform division designs and develops technology that helps our customers improve their Web and Media content delivery. Leveraging our deployment of servers around the world, we can uniquely solve technology problems with innovative solutions.

Make a difference to a vital part of our business

As a Software Engineer II at Akamai, you'll be responsible for developing performant and scalable software. You will be working with a team of highly skilled developers to manage the upgrade and deployment of a product line of edge apps.

As a Software Engineer II, you will be responsible for:

• Implementing strategic features, customer-requested enhancements, and fixing defects for Akamai's Cloudlets product line
• Contributing to architecture, design documents, code reviews, test strategies, and release/deployment plans
• Designing and developing highly scalable and performant software from conception through deployment, and improving the efficiency of current platforms
• Fostering a culture of iterative improvement to our processes, strategies, and more, including adoption of cutting-edge tooling to increase team output

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 2 years of experience and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field/experience
• Have experience developing web services and user interfaces, with technologies like Java, Angular, SQL Databases, Docker
• Be willing to navigate a diverse, established tech stack
• Be interested in web technology, networks, and the inner workings of the internet, and the underlying communication protocols
• Be comfortable working with and modernizing foundational and long-standing services
• Be enthusiastic about automation (streamline development processes and reduce manual toil) and especially in maintaining and evolving existing critical systems

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.

Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from 82,100 - 147,900 CAD/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, RRSP, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.