Performance Engineer II

Akamai Technologies

Performance Engineer II in global traffic engineering and capacity allocation role at Akamai. Ensuring performance, reliability, and efficiency of content delivery products.

Posted 7/24/2026full-timeRemote • 🇵🇱 PolandMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Proficient in designing and implementing strategies for global capacity allocation, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and efficiency. Experienced in automating operational tasks and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance system resilience and customer experience.

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Python ScriptingLinux CLI FluencySite Reliability EngineeringMonitoring and Alerting PlatformsSQL Query Development

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Hard Skills

PythonGoBashSQLLinuxDistributed SystemsSystems DesignNetwork Protocol StackData AnalysisAutomation

Soft Skills

CollaborationProblem-SolvingCommunication

Tools & Technologies

GrafanaPrometheus

Industry Keywords

Content DeliveryCapacity Impact EvaluationTraffic PoliciesPerformance OptimizationOperational Efficiency

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsGoGrafanaLinuxPrometheusPythonSQLUnix

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

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