Software Engineer II- Cloud Native

Would revolutionizing the publicly managed Kubernetes cloud market excite you?

Are you passionate about being the one delivering the platform that enables everything-as-a-service for your fellow developers?

Join our Compute Team!

Our Cloud Technology's Compute division, formerly Linode, consists of collaborative, inclusive, and creative teams. We develop applications and services to empower our customers. Our mission is to accelerate innovation by making cloud computing simple, scalable, affordable, and accessible to all. We design, develop, test and maintain products that run on our IaaS platform

Shape the future of our managed Kubernetes products

Your expertise in Kubernetes enables you to enhance the scale and performance of Linode's Kubernetes Engine (LKE) for global enterprises. Responsibilities include improving the scale, performance, security, and features of the managed platform, ensuring a seamless experience developers expect.

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

• Creating new features from scratch, enhancing and optimizing existing functionalities
• Working on a software development lifecycle from concept and design through development, testing, deployment and sustainment
• Learning and adopting cloud-native technologies and architectures
• Enabling a simple and seamless way for our customers to deploy and operate their Kubernetes clusters
• Collaborating with engineering teams in an Agile environment to sustain a product portfolio
• Working in an environment that fosters innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and healthy, constructive discussion

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 2 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• Have experience building with cloud native technologies and Kubernetes deployments with scale
• Have experience with Container Runtimes (e.g. docker, containered, etc)
• Demonstrate solid experience with Go, Python, Bash or Typescript and be familiar with Linux-based operating systems
• Be familiar with software development practices and product life cycles through build, test, deploy, and iterative environments
• Be comfortable working with a remote, international team spread across Czechia, Poland, and USA

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

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We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.