Principal Backend / Big Data Engineer - Akamai Technologies

Are you a developer who loves solving complex problems?

Would you enjoy contributing to the architecture of high-profile security products?

Join our Team

Akamai is a leading developer of a distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery.

Be part of making a critical difference

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

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• 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

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when yo