Senior Data Pipeline Engineer — Billing & Revenue (Remote‑Friendly)

Akamai Technologies; United States; On-site; USD 121,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K savings plan

Paid vacation

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Intelligene Team that builds the data platform that meters and bills Akamai Cloud compute. You will design pipelines, write production code, and ensure data correctness that drives revenue.

You will ingest usage events, build metering logic, maintain a data lakehouse, and orchestrate Airflow workflows. Strong Python and Spark/Flink skills, SQL, and cloud experience are required.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software/data engineering experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• Demonstrate strong Python programming; Java or Scala is a plus
• Hands-on experience building large-scale pipelines with Spark or Flink
• Production experience orchestrating pipelines with Airflow
• Deep SQL experience: complex joins, window functions, data modeling for analytics
• Experience building/operating a data lakehouse on object storage (Delta Lake, Iceberg, or Hudi)
• Experience with at least one public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and operating batch and streaming pipelines that ingest usage events from Akamai Cloud compute services at high volume
• Building metering/rating logic to aggregate raw usage into billable units and apply rate cards/contract terms
• Developing/maintaining a data lakehouse 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
• Writing clean, tested, well‑documented code; reviewing others' work and raising the team's engineering standards

Skills

Python

Java/Scala

Spark/Flink

Airflow

SQL

Data lakehouse

Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Tools

Docker

Apache Airflow

Apache Spark

Apache Flink

Delta Lake

Apache Iceberg

Apache Hudi

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Akamai Technologies is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Intelligene Team that builds the data platform that meters and bills Akamai Cloud compute. You will design pipelines, write production code, and ensure data correctness that drives revenue.

You will ingest usage events, build metering logic, maintain a data lakehouse, and orchestrate Airflow workflows. Strong Python and Spark/Flink skills, SQL, and cloud experience are required.