Software Engineer in Exposure Analysis and Response (ExAR)
Fa-Extu-Saasfaprod1 Cx · Israel · hybrid
Are you excited to work with innovative security products?
Do you enjoy creating innovative and strategic solutions to solve complex problems?
Join Akamai Enterprise Security Group
Build the core data platform and applications that power Akamai's advanced enterprise cybersecurity solutions, utilizing AI, Python, modern cloud infrastructure and more.
Join our Team
Be part of Akamai ExAR, delivering threat-hunting and segmentation services. Develop backend features using Python, SQL, Airflow, and BigQuery. Collaborate with experienced engineers to transform security telemetry into insights and incidents for global customers. This position is ideal for early-career engineers with programming skills seeking to learn production data systems in a cloud-based environment.
In this role you will be:
- Developing backend services and data pipelines to collect, transform, and enrich security information.
- Researching and providing solutions/design to known feature requirements.
- Integrating APIs to support automated risk detection, incident creation, and customer reporting features.
- Investigating pipeline failures and data quality issues using system logs and diagnostic queries.
- Writing tests and documentation to continuously improve system reliability and query performance.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate defined requirements into working software features.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have a degree in computer science with hands-on programming experience through professional work.
- Understand core software engineering concepts including data structures and error handling.
- Be comfortable writing database queries and working with relational data structures.
- Have basic familiarity with version control, debugging, and software testing practices.
- Exhibit curiosity, clear communication, ask questions, and use feedback to improve work.
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.
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