Intuit
Staff Cloud Software Engineer – Edge, CDN & WAF
$188K–$255K
San Diego, California · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 11, 2026
- Education
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent work-related experience
About the job
Builds and operates Intuit’s Akamai-based CDN/WAF platform and self-service tools to protect and accelerate public-facing traffic, while leading automation and AI-agent workflows.
What you'll do
- Automate endpoint onboarding and recommend optimized CDN/WAF configurations through a self-service platform.
- Engineer edge-security, DNS, certificate, and network solutions; troubleshoot connectivity and support critical services.
- Lead agentic automation, operational quality, compliance and cost improvements, incident response, and cross-team technical direction.
What they ask for
- Deep hands-on Akamai expertise, including CDN, WAF, and related APIs and services.
- Strong networking and troubleshooting skills across TCP/IP, HTTP/2, DNS, TLS/mTLS, routing, and VPN.
- Software engineering and API/UI development skills; experience with AWS and Infrastructure as Code/deployment automation.
- AI-agent development and orchestration skills, plus production support/on-call experience, formal change management, and incident RCA.
Nice to have
- Full-stack development experience; Python, Golang, React, and Java are specified.
- Knowledge of Google GCP and Microsoft Azure.
Pay
San Diego $188,500 - $255,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Akamai, AWS WAFv2, Python, Golang, React, Java, Terraform, CloudFormation
AI focus
Build and orchestrate AI agents and agentic/self-service tooling to automate edge operations; review AI-generated output to peer-code quality standards.
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