Senior Data Scientist – Security ML for Global Threats

Akamai Career Site; España; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to design and deploy creative ML models for application security. You will work with data, build detection rules, and drive improvements across teams in a highly distributed environment.

By analysing trillions of records daily and collaborating with security engineers, you will influence product strategy and performance while ensuring scalable, production-ready analytics in a global context.

Qualifications

• Experience analysing very large datasets and deriving actionable insights.
• Strong foundation in probability, statistics, and machine learning techniques.
• Ability to build and deploy detection rules and models for security products.

Responsibilities

• Analyse large customer datasets and build models to improve detection accuracy.
• Develop and implement detection rules to enhance product effectiveness.
• Improve data collection, processing and analysis in production environments.
• Troubleshoot production issues in distributed systems.

Skills

SQL

Python

Probability

Statistics

Tools

Spark

Python

Job description

Akamai is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to design and deploy creative ML models for application security. You will work with data, build detection rules, and drive improvements across teams in a highly distributed environment.

By analysing trillions of records daily and collaborating with security engineers, you will influence product strategy and performance while ensuring scalable, production-ready analytics in a global context.