Performance Engineer II
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The project focuses on optimizing global traffic flows and capacity allocation across products and regions, emphasizing availability, reliability, and performance. Technologies used include Python, Go, Bash, Linux CLI, SQL, Grafana, Prometheus. Responsibilities include designing capacity allocation strategies, automating operational tasks, and collaborating with SRE and engineering teams to resolve complex performance issues.

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Performance Engineer II

Company: Akamai Technologies

from: 21 August 2026
to: 20 September 2026
salary not specifiedcontract of employment (full-time)
Salary details
basic salary
fixed bonus (e.g., quarterly, annual)
Offer parameters
level:junior • mid
working mode:remote
Kraków, Prądnik Biały
Kraków, Prądnik BiałyOpolska 100View on map

Requirements

Expected technologies

Python
Go
Bash
SQL
Linux

Optional technologies

Grafana
Prometheus

Operating system

Linux

Our requirements

  • 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)

Your responsibilities

  • 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.

About the project

On the Mapping Strategy team, we engineer global traffic flows and allocate capacity across products and regions. We optimize efficiency, resilience, and performance. We define and evolve KPIs, SLIs, and SLOs, advance measurement and dashboards, develop alerting and automation, and lead complex production investigations.
Our mission incudes overseeing the mapping system, ensuring availability, reliability, and performance, enhancing observability, and managing safe change processes.

This is how we organize our work

This is how we work

in houseyou focus on a single project at a timeyou focus on product development

This is how we work on a project

  • documentation
  • issue tracking tools
  • testing environments

Work in a way that works for you

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.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:
  • Your health
  • Your finances
  • Your family
  • Your time at work
  • Your time pursuing other endeavors
  • Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

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    • conferences in Poland
    • mentoring
    • soft skills training
    • support of IT events
    • technical knowledge exchange within the company

    Benefits

    • sharing the costs of sports activities
    • private medical care
    • life insurance
    • remote work opportunities
    • dental care
    • corporate gym
    • corporate library
    • no dress code
    • coffee / tea
    • parking space for employees
    • leisure zone
    • extra social benefits
    • holiday funds
    • extra leave

    Recruitment stages

    • 1.
      HR Interview
    • 2.
      Manager Interview

    Akamai Technologies

    Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.
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