Do you thrive on collaborating across teams to solve complex problems?
Are you passionate about tackling large-scale distributed computing and global traffic engineering challenges that impact how the Internet performs?
Join our world-class Mapping Strategy team
On the Mapping Strategy team, we engineer global traffic flows and allocate capacity across products and regions. We optimize efficiency, resilience, and performance. We define and evolve KPIs, SLIs, and SLOs, advance measurement and dashboards, develop alerting and automation, and lead complex production investigations.
Partner with the best!
Our mission incudes overseeing the mapping system, ensuring availability, reliability, and performance, enhancing observability, and managing safe change processes.
As a Performance Engineer II, you will be responsible for:
- Improving Akamai's content delivery products through cross-functional collaboration, data-driven decisions, and focus on performance, availability, reliability, and efficiency.
- Responding to escalations for capacity impact evaluation.
- Designing strategies for allocating Akamai's global capacity across products to balance efficiency, resilience, and customer experience.
- Engineering global traffic policies to continuously improve latency, availability, and resource utilization.
- Automating operational tasks and build frameworks that eliminate toil and reduce manual and repetitive work.
- Collaborating with engineering and SRE teams to build scalable, resilient systems and troubleshoot complex performance issues across services, networks, and regions.
- Implementing and optimize monitoring, alerting, logging, and analytics to proactively detect, mitigate, and prevent issues.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have a Bachelor's Computer Science, Data Science, or a related engineering field.
- Have an experience with Python, Go, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
- Demonstrate Linux CLI/shell fluency, deep
Linux/Unix internals knowledge; expertise with the network protocol stack, distributed systems, and systems design - Demonstrate an experience in developing SQL queries for trend analysis, troubleshooting, and reporting.
- Have an experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or a related role.
- Be fluent in monitoring, alerting, and logging platforms (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus)
Experience with Lisp and Linear Programming would be a plus
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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related engineering field
- Experience with Python, Go, Bash, or similar scripting languages
- Linux CLI/shell fluency and deep Linux/Unix internals knowledge
- Expertise with the network protocol stack, distributed systems, and systems design
- Experience developing SQL queries for trend analysis, troubleshooting, and reporting
- Experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or a related role
- Fluency with monitoring, alerting, and logging platforms (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus)
- Experience with Lisp and Linear Programming
Akamai Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Akamai Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Akamai Technologies.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO in the U.S., wellness days, paid volunteering time, and the FlexBase model contribute to broad time‑off flexibility. These practices are described as supporting strong work‑life balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leaves, paid family care leave, subsidized backup childcare, and inclusive family‑building benefits via Carrot form a comprehensive family support suite. Coverage spans fertility support through caregiving resources.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a substantial company match and immediate vesting, plus Roth and Mega Backdoor Roth options, underpin long‑term savings. These features provide reliable long‑term savings opportunities.
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What We Do
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every moment, billions of people, all over the world, are using the internet to shop, play games, look after finances, learn remotely, share videos, connect across the world, and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission, and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges, and turning the impossible into the possible. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Do you want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!
Why Work With Us
Our people are devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence, and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse, and we love to collaborate across the world.
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