Are you excited to work with innovative security products?
Do you relish the prospect of working with cutting-edge network security systems?
Join our Data Intelligene Team!
Our data intelligence team builds the data platform that meters and bills Akamai Cloud compute. We turn raw usage from compute instances, GPUs, storage, networking and AI inference into accurate/auditable billing data that customers/finance teams trust.
Partner with the best
You will join the Netstats Engineering team, which runs the large-scale usage and billing pipelines behind Akamai's products. In this hands-on engineering role, you will design pipelines, write production code, and own the correctness of data, directly driving revenue.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Designing, building and operating batch and streaming pipelines that ingest usage events from Akamai Cloud compute services at high volume
- Building metering/rating logic:aggregate raw usage into billable units(instance hours, GPU hours, data transfer, storage, inference tokens) and apply rate cards/contract terms
- Developing/maintaining a data lakehouse (open table formats on object storage) as the source of truth for usage and billing data
- Orchestrating workflows with Apache Airflow, including backfills, late-arriving data, retries and SLA monitoring
- Writing production-grade Python and Spark or Flink jobs, packaged and deployed with Docker
- Building reconciliation/data-quality checks so every billed unit traces back to its source usage, with audit trails finance can rely on
- Writing clean, tested, well-documented code; review others' work and raise the team's engineering standards
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 6+ years of software/data engineering experience, with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- Demonstrate great programming skills in Python; ideally experience in Java or Scala
- Have hands-on experience building large-scale pipelines with a modern data framework such as Apache Spark or Apache Flink
- Have production experience orchestrating pipelines with Apache Airflow
- Possess deep SQL experience: complex joins, window functions, query tuning, and data modeling for analytics
- Have experience building or running a data lakehouse (e.g., Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg or Apache Hudi on object storage)
- Have experience with at least one public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure )
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.
Compensation
Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $121,400 - $218,600/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.
Skills Required
- 6+ years of software or data engineering experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Experience building large-scale pipelines with Apache Spark or Apache Flink
- Production experience orchestrating pipelines with Apache Airflow
- Deep SQL experience, including complex joins, window functions, query tuning, and analytics data modeling
- Experience building or operating a data lakehouse using Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, or Apache Hudi on object storage
- Experience with at least one public cloud: AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience with Java or Scala
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.
Akamai Technologies Insights
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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