Akamai

Senior Software Engineer – Backend, Big Data & AI

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11 hours ago
Tel Aviv-Yafo, IsraelSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and deploy cloud-native, high-scale big data systems on Azure.
  • Optimize data pipelines and work with large-scale data infrastructures and distributed systems architectures.
  • Integrate AI and machine learning models into production for real-time insights.
  • Drive AI initiatives from proof of concept through production features.
  • Collaborate with product, UX, data science, and engineering teams to develop security tools.
  • Contribute to open-source projects or research initiatives in machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of backend or data engineering experience focused on big data environments.
  • Bachelor of Science in computer science or a related field.
  • Expertise in Python and Java or Scala, with experience in Spring Boot, FastAPI, Flask, and Django.
  • Practical experience with Kubernetes and cloud platforms including Azure, AWS, and GCP.
  • Experience with large-scale data infrastructure and distributed systems architecture.
  • Strong understanding of supervised and unsupervised learning, model lifecycle, and evaluation metrics.
  • Experience with LLMs, agents, generative AI, or AI-driven security tools.

Benefits

  • Akamai provides benefits supporting health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work.
  • FlexBase supports working from home, in an office, or through a combination of both.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaAWSAzureDjangoFastAPIFlaskGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaKubernetesPrometheusPythonScalaSpring Boot

Categories

BackendData EngineeringML Engineering
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About Akamai

10,000+ employees

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.

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