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 General 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 Data Scientist, on a typical day you will be:
• Analysing large customer datasets (trillions of records a day), gaining insights and building models.
• 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 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.
• Have the confidence to speak up in front of senior or principal data scientists and engineers.
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 di
📌 Senior II Data Scientist (Madrid)
🏢 Akamai
📍 Madrid