• Developing backend and frontend solutions while automating workflows to improve productivity and operational efficiency. • Building software features throughout the full software development lifecycle for internal use within Akamai. • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define standards and document processes. • Learning about our distributed systems, products, and technical stack as needed for your role.

• Building data pipelines, tools, or analysis workflows to process large-scale network and cache data. • Analyzing system behavior to identify performance, efficiency, and cost improvement opportunities. • Developing models, simulations, or algorithms to improve cache policies, traffic placement, or infrastructure allocation decisions. • Building prototypes using machine learning or AI techniques to automate tasks such as performance analysis, anomaly detection, or operational insights. • Presenting findings and recommendations that support capacity planning, sustainability (e.g., carbon-aware decisions), and cost optimization.

• Act as a technical leader for multiple functional pods • Provide technical guidance, architectural direction, and hands-on assistance • Guide projects from planning through delivery, including attending project meetings • Write production code and implement key parts of the system • Support other engineers and unblock delivery • Contribute to improving on-call and production support practices

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features across Toast’s enterprise management products. Hands-on design and implementation experience in Java or Kotlin. • Lead complex projects that improve functionality and reliability for our customers • Partner with a wide array of teams across Toast • Ensure quality by building automated testing for changes • Roll features out to customers, including monitoring for success • Collaborate with UX and PM on the definition and design of features • Mentor and coach other engineers