Software Engineer 1

## Job Description Does the opportunity to develop and produce high performance systems excite you? Do you thrive when given the freedom to innovate? Join our world-class Edge Technology organization. The Edge Platform team plans, builds, maintains, and operates a global platform, ensuring reliable availability and performance for customers. It designs, develops, and deploys essential technologies, including hardware, software, and network infrastructure, supporting all products. ## Partner with the best As a Software Engineer I, you'll work on high-reliability/high-throughput systems that manage our customer's security certificates and configurations. Our team provides support to several other teams at Akamai who require secure delivery. Our work centers around building systems which operate at large scale, with high resilience and performance. As a Software Engineer I, you will be responsible for: - Designing and developing systems capable of handling tens of thousands of concurrent operations - Developing software to make efficient use of Relational Database Management Systems and NoSQL databases - Creating new features from scratch, enhancing existing features and optimizing existing functionality - Following good development methodology, including collaboration with testing and SQA departments to successfully deploy new system components ## Do what you love To be successful in this role you will: - Have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field - Possess academic or project-based training in Java and familiarity with Python, C++, or Bash in Linux/Unix environments - Have hands-on project experience with Spring and Spring Boot frameworks for building scalable backend applications - Have hands-on project experience with UI technologies through academic or practical project experience using Angular for front-end development solutions - Demonstrate foundational understanding or project coursework in Terraform - Demonstrate understanding of SQL, relational databases (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres), and NoSQL databases (e.g., Elasticsearch, Cassandra) through projects