Senior Software Engineer in Exposure Analysis and Response (ExAR)

Are you excited to build backend systems and infrastructure that operate at scale? Are you excited to work on innovative security products? Join Akamai Enterprise Security Join the team behind Akamai ExAR, our threat-hunting and segmentation service. We build a cloud-based data platform in Akamai's scale that turns security telemetry into detections, risk insights, and actionable incidents for customers worldwide. Build the data platform powering Akamai's cybersecurity solutions. You will own backend and data-platform capabilities from design through production, working with Python, SQL, Apache Airflow, and BigQuery on Google Cloud. AI is a central part of how we work and what we build: we use AI coding assistants and agents extensively and integrate LLMs into security enrichment, triage, summarization, and investigation workflows. In this role you will be: Building a new cutting-edge security product that protects millions of assets worldwide Owning technical decisions and delivery from requirements and design to testing, rollout, monitoring, and troubleshooting. Building and improve LLM-powered workflows, evaluating output quality, handling failures, and balancing accuracy, latency, and cost. Improving SQL performance, data models, orchestration, and cloud cost efficiency across a platform serving multiple customers and regions Using AI assistants and agents for development, investigation, testing, and documentation, validate their output and remain accountable for the resu