Senior Software Engineer

Akamai Technologies

Senior Software Engineer responsible for designing scalable storage solutions in Akamai's cloud platform. Collaborating with global teams to build a reliable and efficient object storage service.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Getting in early on an exceptionally rare and impactful project
Working with a small team to solve complex issues
Designing systems that scale
Working to define the next generation of cloud tooling

Requirements

What you’ll need

Demonstrate relevant experience and education in Computer Science or a related field.
Have proven professional experience in Go.
Have solid experience building high-performance, reliable systems (profiling, concurrency, memory/latency optimisation, and performance debugging).
Have shipped production software end-to-end, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, triage, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
Show proven experience in designing and improving complex distributed systems, particularly with performance-critical system development expertise.
Be comfortable working in an Agile development environment (iterative delivery, reviews, planning, and continuous improvement).

Benefits

Comp & perks

with our company moving so fast it’s important that you’re able to build new skills, explore new roles, and try out different opportunities. There are so many different ways to build your career at Akamai, and we want to support you as much as possible. We have all kinds of development opportunities available, from programs such as GROW and Mentoring, to internal events like the APEX Expo and tools such as Linkedin Learning, all to help you expand your knowledge and experience here.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Gohigh-performance systemsreliable systemsprofilingconcurrencymemory optimizationlatency optimizationperformance debuggingdistributed systemsAgile development

Soft Skills

team collaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationincident responseroot-cause analysisiterative deliveryplanningcontinuous improvement