Senior Data Scientist II
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 5, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 3, 2026. Akamai scores A on the Alion truth index.
Does developing creative machine learning models addressing application security threats get your head churning?
Join us and use data science to make a positive impact!
Join our Global Web Security group!
Our team is part of the Cloud Security organization. We are responsible for the technologies powering Akamai's security products and protecting some of the world's major internet brands. Working in partnership with other development teams, we design and create highly scalable solutions.
Partner with the best
In this role, you'll play a key part in strengthening security products by analyzing data, addressing customer challenges, and driving product improvements. You'll collaborate across teams to implement solutions, enhance detection accuracy, and provide insights that shape strategy and performance.
As a Senior II Data Scientist, you will be responsible for:
- Analyzing large sets of data to differentiate legitimate and fraud traffic
- Developing and implementing detection rules and models to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of the security products.
- Improving processes to collect, manipulate, present, and analyze large datasets in a production-ready environment
- Troubleshooting production issues in a very distributed environment
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- * Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent
- Have experience working on large datasets using SQL/Spark and Python
- Have a good understanding of probability, statistics and machine learning algorithms/techniques
- Demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills and enjoy troubleshooting to identify and resolve complex issues
- Possess practical knowledge of application security products such as bot or fraud detection
- Have excellent communication and organizational skills and be able to articulate technical information in an easy-to-understand manner
- Demonstrate Familiarity with Internet protocols including TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, TLS/SSL
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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