Senior Backend Engineer, Data-Focused

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🕒 February 11

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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

• Leading data infrastructure initiatives end-to-end, from requirements to delivery, bridging the gap between Centra product data and the AI Data Platform. • Designing and implementing data ingestion and delivery pipelines, along with scalable backend services operating in high-throughput, distributed environments • Writing reliable, efficient, and secure production-grade code (Python / Java) for large-scale systems. • Collaborating across the organization with Data Science, Product, and Operations to build innovative components of Akamai's Big Data AI solutions. • Shaping the technical roadmap, mentoring other engineers and setting engineering standards to ensure the platform scales smoothly as the business grows.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of backend software development experience. • Have a proven track record in designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems. • Have a deep understanding of API design, scalability, and system performance optimization. • Have solid backend engineering skills, proficiency in Python / Go / Java or other equivalent languages. • Have cloud native experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and microservices architectures. • Have Hands-on experience with data stacks such as Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ, Postgres (or other RDBs), Clickhouse, Mongo or Delta Lake.

🏖️ Benefits

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