Software Engineer II (Data Products)

Are you passionate about distributed platforms and solving technology problems on a large scale?

Do you want to work with Big Data systems?

Make an Impact with our Data Services team

The Data Experience Team owns and operates systems that are used across Akamai for log delivery, analytics, reporting and alerting. These systems currently receive over 7PB/day of data and process over 5 trillion records per day. Our code helps to run one of the largest distributed systems in the world. You will work at the heart of the Internet.

You will build and extend services processing large volumes of data and managing its storage and retrieval. You will join a cross-functional scrum team that owns services and products’ design, development and deployment and maintenance. Thousands of internal and external Akamai customers use these.

Partner with the best

Our team is collaborative, inclusive, and creative. We develop applications and services to empower our customers. In this role, you'll work closely with developers to design, develop and test our new applications and services that will turn into Akamai future products.

As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Participating in the design, development, improvement, operation, and automation of observability solutions for scalable and resilient services that leverage both Open Source solutions like Kubernetes and Kafka as well as internal tools
• Following modern DevOps practices, building new services, or enhancing the existing ones
• Testing, profiling, and monitoring code performance
• Diagnosing system performance and reliability together with the team of Site Reliability Engineers
• Contributing to internal research processes, methodologies, and approaches to create and share best practices
• Partnering with product owners, development, and test groups to create rapid cycles of feedback and improvement

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have experience in programming and automating processes using Java and other programming languages
• Know Web technologies and frameworks like Spring
• Have experience working with databases and SQL queries syntax
• Have an understanding of the development, management, and deployment of highly scalable applications, distributed systems, and modern observability
• Have experience with developing software in GNU/Linux or Unix environment
• Collaborate and effectively communicate with multidisciplinary teams to solve technical and business challenges
• Have interest in or experience of cloud deployment with Kubernetes, eg. AWS or Linode
• Have interest in or experience with Kafka

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.

We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.