Performance Engineer II

Do you thrive on collaborating across teams to solve complex problems?

Are you passionate about tackling large-scale distributed computing and global traffic engineering challenges that impact how the Internet performs?

Join our world-class Mapping Strategy team

On the Mapping Strategy team, we engineer global traffic flows and allocate capacity across products and regions. We optimize efficiency, resilience, and performance. We define and evolve KPIs, SLIs, and SLOs, advance measurement and dashboards, develop alerting and automation, and lead complex production investigations.

Partner with the best!

Our mission incudes overseeing the mapping system, ensuring availability, reliability, and performance, enhancing observability, and managing safe change processes.

As a Performance Engineer II, you will be responsible for:

• Improving Akamai's content delivery products through cross-functional collaboration, data-driven decisions, and focus on performance, availability, reliability, and efficiency.
• Responding to escalations for capacity impact evaluation.
• Designing strategies for allocating Akamai's global capacity across products to balance efficiency, resilience, and customer experience.
• Engineering global traffic policies to continuously improve latency, availability, and resource utilization.
• Automating operational tasks and build frameworks that eliminate toil and reduce manual and repetitive work.
• Collaborating with engineering and SRE teams to build scalable, resilient systems and troubleshoot complex performance issues across services, networks, and regions.
• Implementing and optimize monitoring, alerting, logging, and analytics to proactively detect, mitigate, and prevent issues.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have a Bachelor's Computer Science, Data Science, or a related engineering field.
• Have an experience with Python, Go, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
• Demonstrate Linux CLI/shell fluency, deep
  Linux/Unix internals knowledge; expertise with the network protocol stack, distributed systems, and systems design
• Demonstrate an experience in developing SQL queries for trend analysis, troubleshooting, and reporting.
• Have an experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or a related role.
• Be fluent in monitoring, alerting, and logging platforms (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus)

Experience with Lisp and Linear Programming would be a plus

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: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.

We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

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