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# Senior II Data Scientist

- **Company:** Akamai Technologies
- **Location:** Spain (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Big Data, Cloud Computing Security, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Akamai, SQL Databases, Apache Spark
- **Published:** October 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/E97A1A0914FD4A1AB2F1EE0F757DA738/job/

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

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