Software Engineer II

Software Engineer II

Would you like the opportunity to solve technical challenges?

Are you excited about working with cutting-edge technologies?

Join our team

Our Edge Platform division designs, develops, and operates 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 work with highly-skilled developers to manage the upgrade and deployment of a network of thousands of production servers.

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

• Collaborating with the product engineering team and/or working group
• Conducting regular Production Error Audits of operational metrics and deep-dive log analysis to proactively detect anomalies and error conditions
• Designing and implementing software tools that enhance productivity with respect to debugging, check-listing, and product metric analysis
• Designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines that are key to building releases and deploying them to testing, staging, and production environments
• Triaging and analysis of customer escalations related to product operations and behaviour, including the identification, mitigation, and resolution of product bugs
• Participating as a Subject-Matter Expert in Technical Incidents, performing root cause analysis, identifying and executing incident mitigations
• Fostering a culture that strives for consistent, iterative improvement to our processes, strategies, tools and frameworks

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, Computer Engineering, or a related field/experience
• Be interested in learning about internet technologies and optimizations
• Have experience developing and monitoring backend applications, such as databases, queuing systems, understanding of system limits and impacts on performance/scale
• Have experience with some technologies like Java, Angular, Spring Framework, NoSQL Databases, Realtime Service Delivery, containerization technologies
• Have expertise with scripting languages in a Linux/Unix environment (eg: shell, Bash, Python, Ruby)
• Be comfortable with basic statistics and an interest in deeper analysis will be an asset
• Be enthusiastic about automation, and build tools to streamline development processes and reduce manual toil

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.

Job Info

• Job Identification 3681
• Posting Date 08/21/2026, 04:23 PM
• Locations 343 Preston Street, Suite 420, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 1N4, CA (Remote)
• Citizenship required No
• Is Security Clearance required No