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Senior Software Engineer

Poland(Remote)

Job Description

Are you passionate about distributed platforms and solving technology problems on a large scale?

Do you want to work with Big Data systems?

Join our Cloud Data Services team

The Cloud Data Services Team owns and operates systems that are used across Akamai for log delivery, analytics, reporting and alerting. These systems currently receive over 7PB/day of data and process over 5 trillion records per day. Our code helps to run one of the largest distributed systems in the world.

Partner with the best

Our team is collaborative, inclusive, and creative. We develop applications and services to empower our customers. In this role you will gather requirements, design, implement, and maintain services used to provide customer-facing reports and alerts. These features are vital to understand and optimize Akamai products' performance and consumption.

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

• Building, managing and maintaining platforms on which our systems run
• Developing and integrating backend systems in microservice architecture
• Partnering with product management, architects and other engineering teams to build features that allow customers to understand their products and performance
• Solving complex problems in a timely and accurate manner through development, automation and systems programming
• Working in a cross-functional team where quality and availability are key capabilities that are shared across all team members
• Automating security checks throughout your entire software development lifecycle
• Troubleshooting deployment failures and performing root cause analysis

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Demonstrate solid understanding of Kubernetes platform
• Have experience building backend applications (including use of: Java 21+ and Spring 6)
• Have knowledge of Docker / Helm charts / PostgreSQL / Grafana
• Display excellent analytical, problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Demonstrate written, verbal and presentation skills in English
• Be a good team player, enjoy collaborating and solving problems with others

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.

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Job Info

• Job Identification3243
• Posting Date06/25/2026, 06:26 AM
• LocationsCentrum Biurowe Vinci, Krakow, Malopolskie, 31-323, PL(Remote)

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