Principal Backend Engineer, Big Data

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🕒 April 20

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Akamai Technologies

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5001 - 10000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

🏢 Enterprise

📱 Media

Cybersecurity • Enterprise • Media

Akamai Technologies is a global edge platform and cloud services company that delivers content delivery, edge computing, and security solutions. The company operates one of the world’s largest distributed networks to accelerate and protect web, media, and application traffic, offering products for content delivery, DDoS protection, API and app security, bot management, edge compute (serverless/edge functions), and AI inference at the edge. Akamai also provides enterprise-focused security services (zero trust, identity and access management, secure internet access) and cloud/AI infrastructure tools, and has recently expanded capabilities through acquisitions (for example LayerX) to add browser-based AI usage control.

📋 Description

• Designing and implementing scalable solutions powered by Akamai's Cloud Platform • Developing and maintaining data pipelines for ingesting, processing, and analyzing data • Creating new features from scratch, while enhancing and optimizing existing ones • Implementing Unit and Integration Tests • Participating in an On Call Rotation • Collaborating with various Stakeholders, such as Data Science, SecOps, and QA

🎯 Requirements

• Have not written a single line of code by hand for the past six months • Have coerced AI into writing production grade code in an automatic and cost-effective way • Have extensive experience in Backend / Big Data positions. We welcome Backend Engineers without prior Big Data experience • Have proficiency in Designing, Implementing & Monitoring data intensive solutions • Have proficiency in Modern Programming Languages (Java / Scala / Python) • Have proficiency in Backend / Big Data Technologies (Microservices / Akka / Spark / Flink) • Have experience with Data Storage Systems (Postgres / Mongo / Redis / Delta / Iceberg) • Have experience with Streaming Technologies (Kafka / RabbitMQ / SQS) • Have basic Understanding of common Algorithms and Data Structures

🏖️ Benefits

• Your health • Your finances • Your family • Your time at work • Your time pursuing other endeavors