7 days ago
Remote, India or Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop statistical, mathematical, and machine learning models to analyze traffic flows, predict latency anomalies, and optimize routing efficiency.
- Design and refine data-driven SLIs and SLOs using exploratory data analysis to identify bottlenecks and performance trends.
- Build and deploy automated data pipelines, predictive models, and diagnostic algorithms for platform anomaly detection and analysis.
- Partner with product engineers to promote scalable, resilient, and supportable system architectures.
- Provide data-driven insights for executive decision-making and technology investment strategy.
- Conduct quantitative investigations and forensic telemetry analyses for outages and high-priority performance escalations.
Requirements
- Master’s or PhD in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, or another highly quantitative analytical field.
- 5+ years of experience applying data science, predictive modeling, or quantitative research to large-scale distributed systems or technology environments.
- Deep expertise in Unix/Linux internals, computer networking protocols, and distributed system design.
- Professional fluency operating in a command-line UNIX/Linux environment.
- Expertise in statistical analysis, machine learning algorithms, time-series forecasting, and advanced SQL/NoSQL big-data querying.
- Proven ability to convert complex datasets into actionable strategic roadmaps.
- Practical knowledge of enterprise observability, logging, and alerting systems such as Grafana.
- High proficiency with data science languages and frameworks including Python, R, Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.
- Strong communication skills for explaining complex systems to non-technical stakeholders while managing multiple timelines.
Benefits
- Benefits support employee health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work.
- FlexBase supports working from home, in an office, or through a combination of both.
Categories
ML EngineeringSite Reliability
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.