20 hours ago
Base Salary
$121k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate high-volume batch and streaming pipelines ingesting usage events from Akamai Cloud compute services.
- Develop metering and rating logic that converts raw usage into billable units and applies rate cards and contract terms.
- Develop and maintain a data lakehouse on object storage as the source of truth for usage and billing data.
- Orchestrate workflows with Apache Airflow, including backfills, late-arriving data, retries, and SLA monitoring.
- Write production Python and Spark or Flink jobs, packaged and deployed with Docker.
- Build reconciliation and data-quality checks with traceable audit trails for billed usage.
- Write tested and documented code, review others' work, and improve engineering standards.
Requirements
- 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; Java or Scala experience is preferred.
- Hands-on 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 technologies such as Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, or Apache Hudi on object storage.
- Experience with at least one public cloud: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Benefits
- Benefits include healthcare, a 401(k) savings plan, company holidays, PTO, sick time, parental leave, an employee assistance program, and mental and financial wellness support; eligibility requirements apply.
- Flexible work arrangement through FlexBase, allowing employees to work from home, in an office, or in a combination of both.
- Additional compensation may include annual bonuses or incentives, equity awards, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Akamai
Akamai builds content delivery, cloud security, and edge compute services for enterprises that run consumer and business web, API, and video workloads. The public company (NASDAQ: AKAM), founded in 1998 and headquartered in Cambridge, MA, operates a global CDN and security platform and sells via subscriptions and usage-based services. It expanded into cloud infrastructure by acquiring Linode in 2022, offering IaaS and managed Kubernetes.