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Senior Backend Infrastructure Engineer

Akamai Technologies·Tel Aviv, Israel·en
Not specifiedFull-timeBackend DevelopmentCybersecurity

Build and operate backend services and cloud infrastructure for a security platform, with a focus on scalable production systems, data processing, and reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate scalable backend services and supporting infrastructure
  • Own production systems end to end, including availability, performance, observability, and operational readiness
  • Build and maintain reliable ETL and data-processing pipelines
  • Design schemas and improve query performance and data lifecycle management for PostgreSQL and ClickHouse systems
  • Develop and operate event-driven processing with Kafka and integrate it with backend services
  • Build and improve cloud infrastructure using Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code
  • Improve deployment and operations through CI/CD, monitoring, and automation

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of backend or infrastructure engineering experience in production environments
  • Experience building and operating production services in one or more general-purpose programming languages
  • Experience designing distributed systems and troubleshooting performance and reliability issues
  • Hands-on PostgreSQL experience, including data modeling, schema design, query performance, migrations, and troubleshooting
  • Experience with ClickHouse and Kafka, or similar analytical database and event-streaming technologies
  • Experience building ETL or data-processing pipelines
  • Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code

Nice to have

  • Experience supporting analytics or data science workflows

Benefits

  • Career development, mentoring, and learning opportunities

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