[Hiring] Principal Backend / Big Data Engineer @Akamai

Role Description

Are you a developer who loves solving complex problems? Would you enjoy contributing to the architecture of high-profile security products? Join our Team.

At team SIA-DE (Secure Internet Access, Data Engineering), we design solutions which power Akamai's Real Time Cybersecurity Threat Protection capabilities. You'll play a key role in building a scalable, world-class big data platform that processes internet scale volumes of data. In this position, you'll work closely with various teams to develop advanced cloud services and environments for the SIA Data Platform.

As a Principal Big Data Engineer, you will be:

• 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

Qualifications

• 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

Company Description

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.