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# Software Engineer II

- **Company:** Akamai Technologies
- **Location:** Concord, NH, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $95,000.0 - $171,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Cloud Computing Security, Programming Tools, Fraud Prevention and Detection, JSON, Akamai, Azure Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Large Language Models, Information Technology, Web Api
- **Published:** August 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/1E427264A1CB4416A26D2E56689300D4/job/

## About the Role

* Have 2+ years of overall SW development experience and a degree in Computer Science or other related discipline
 * Have experience with web API development in a performant compiled language such as Java or Go
 * Have a good understanding of HTTP and data formats such as JSON, XML
 * Have experience or understanding how to integrate machine learning tools and integrating LLMs
 * Be able to design suitable architectures, produce clean well-structured code and relevant test cases with the help of agentic development tools

## Description

Our team is part of the Security organization, responsible for developing products and platforms focused on security. Our product is designed to provide cloud computing security, prevent data theft and mitigate large account takeover attempts. We build unique technology to handle petabytes of data and conduct billions of secure transactions daily

Partner with the best

As part of the Bot and Agent Control Engineering team, you will focus on building highly usable, reliable, scalable solutions. These solutions are for bot threat detection, protection and request risk detection. We allow our customers to better manage bot and agent traffic to help improve the internet for millions of people.

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

 * Working on projects that improve our bot and request risk detection products to make Akamai a leader in bot detection and fraud prevention.
 * Implementing new features from scratch.
 * Enhancing existing features and optimizing existing functionality, from conception and design through testing and deployment.
 * Working with our level 3 support to troubleshoot complex problems or any customer issues.
 * Working on data analysis for web and mobile platforms.


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