Akamai Technologies is hiring a Data Scientist to join the Adversarial Response Team (ART), the final escalation tier for our Bot Manager Premier (BMP) and Account Protector products. In this pivotal role, you will own escalated case analysis end-to-end, diagnosing detection failures, engineering targeted fixes, and surfacing systemic trends to drive long-term improvements in Akamai's security detection models.
What You'll Do
- Investigate FP/FN and product escalations from Professional Services (PS) and the Security Operations Command Center (SOCC) related to BMP and Account Protector.
- Perform deep-dive analysis on traffic patterns, request signatures, behavioral signals, and telemetry to identify root causes.
- Develop and validate targeted fixes — including rule tuning, threshold adjustments, and feature engineering — and communicate findings clearly to relevant teams.
- Analyze trends across case history to identify recurring FP/FN patterns and systemic gaps in detection coverage.
- Author well-scoped, well-documented research tickets for novel or unresolved issues, providing sufficient context to accelerate resolution by the expert data science team.
- Serve as the technical bridge between PS/SOCC operations and the core data science research group, translating operational case data into actionable research signals.
What We're Looking For
- 2–5 years of experience in data science or applied analytics within a production environment.
- Strong proficiency in Python for data analysis.
- Solid SQL skills for querying and analyzing large-scale event and telemetry datasets.
Technical Stack
- Python
- SQL
Team & Environment
You will be part of the Adversarial Response Team (ART), sitting at the intersection of data science and security operations. This role serves as the technical bridge between PS/SOCC operations and the expert data science research group.
At Akamai, you will help shape internet security.
