Senior Cloud Architect — Scalable Data & DB Systems

Akamai; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 169,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

FlexBase benefits

Healthcare coverage

401K savings plan

Parental leave

PTO and sick time

Job summary

Akamai seeks a Senior Architect to design scalable cloud data services powering our platform. You will partner with a multinational engineering team to shape architectures, drive requirements, and deliver robust pipelines.

You will mentor engineers, translate prototypes into production patterns, and ensure high availability and security. This role focuses on technical direction and hands-on development in a fast-paced cloud environment.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of relevant experience.
• Terraform modules, templates, deployment patterns.
• Scripting in Python, Go or Bash.
• Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL, Oracle, and MongoDB.
• Experience with Redis and in-memory data stores.
• Understanding distributed data systems for horizontal scalability and high availability.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure, resilient, and highly available cloud and data architectures.
• Evaluate cloud technologies for new platform capabilities and services.
• Serve as SME for PostgreSQL, Oracle DB and related architectures.
• Design replicated, clustered, geographically distributed database architectures.
• Build prototypes, proofs of concept, and reference implementations for scalability and security.
• Convert prototypes into production-ready architecture patterns.

Skills

Cloud data architecture

Terraform modules

Python scripting

Go scripting

Bash scripting

PostgreSQL

Oracle DB

MongoDB

Redis

Valkey

Distributed data

Security & reliability

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

SQL tooling

Job description

Akamai seeks a Senior Architect to design scalable cloud data services powering our platform. You will partner with a multinational engineering team to shape architectures, drive requirements, and deliver robust pipelines.

You will mentor engineers, translate prototypes into production patterns, and ensure high availability and security. This role focuses on technical direction and hands-on development in a fast-paced cloud environment.