Akamai Senior Software Engineer - 

United States, Oregon 

779558838

Drive innovation in Threat Intelligence

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

• Building and tuning real-time anomaly detection systems using behavioral models, heuristics, and ML
• Designing and maintaining scalable pipelines to process and analyze high-volume network telemetry
• Developing high-performance ClickHouse queries and data models to support threat detection and response workflows
• Contributing services that serve as the backbone of our detection systems
• Collaborating with Security Analysts and Incident Response teams to operationalize threat intelligence
• Experimenting with new models and approaches, performing validation and tuning on live data

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• 5+ years of relevant experience and a bachelor's degree in a related field
• Be proficient in Python and Golang for backend engineering, with experience writing scalable and reliable microservices
• Have hands-on experience with ClickHouse or other columnar data stores in real-time analytics use cases
• Demonstrate knowledge of anomaly detection, time-series modeling, and applying machine learning to security problems
• Have experience building containerized microservices and managing them with Kubernetes in production/on-prem environments
• Be familiar with network protocols, common attack patterns, and threat hunting practices
• Possess a deep understanding of distributed systems, observability, and performance tuning

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

If no date is displayed, applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis until the job is filled.