About this role

Designing and implementing scalable solutions powered by Akamai's Cloud Platform
Developing and maintaining data pipelines for ingesting, processing, and analyzing data
Creating new features from scratch, while enhancing and optimizing existing ones
Implementing Unit and Integration Tests
Participating in an On Call Rotation
Collaborating with various Stakeholders, such as Data Science, SecOps, and QA

Have not written a single line of code by hand for the past six months
Have coerced AI into writing production grade code in an automatic and cost-effective way
Have extensive experience in Backend / Big Data positions. We welcome Backend Engineers without prior Big Data experience
Have proficiency in Designing, Implementing & Monitoring data intensive solutions
Have proficiency in Modern Programming Languages (Java / Scala / Python)
Have proficiency in Backend / Big Data Technologies (Microservices / Akka / Spark / Flink)
Have experience with Data Storage Systems (Postgres / Mongo / Redis / Delta / Iceberg)
Have experience with Streaming Technologies (Kafka / RabbitMQ / SQS)
Have basic Understanding of common Algorithms and Data Structures

Principal Backend Engineer, Big Data

Key skills