Senior Software Engineer

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

Are you excited to work with innovative security products?

Do you relish the prospect of working with cutting-edge network security systems?

Join our Data Intelligene Team!

Our data intelligence team builds the data platform that meters and bills Akamai Cloud compute. We turn raw usage from compute instances, GPUs, storage, networking and AI inference into accurate/auditable billing data that customers/finance teams trust.

Partner with the best

You will join the Netstats Engineering team, which runs the large-scale usage and billing pipelines behind Akamai's products. In this hands‑on engineering role, you will design pipelines, write production code, and own the correctness of data, directly driving revenue.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Designing, building and operating batch and streaming pipelines that ingest usage events from Akamai Cloud compute services at high volume
• Building metering/rating logic:aggregate raw usage into billable units(instance hours, GPU hours, data transfer, storage, inference tokens) and apply rate cards/contract terms
• Developing/maintaining a data lakehouse (open table formats on object storage) 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 finance can rely on
• Writing clean, tested, well‑documented code; review others' work and raise the team's engineering standards

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 6+ years of software/data engineering experience, with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• Demonstrate great programming skills in Python; ideally experience in Java or Scala
• Have hands‑on experience building large‑scale pipelines with a modern data framework such as Apache Spark or Apache Flink
• Have production experience orchestrating pipelines with Apache Airflow
• Possess deep SQL experience: complex joins, window functions, query tuning, and data modeling for analytics
• Have experience building or running a data lakehouse (e.g., Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg or Apache Hudi on object storage)
• Have experience with at least one public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure )

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai:

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Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $121,400 - $218,600/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.