Senior Data Services Engineer — Remote & Flexible

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 85,000 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

RRSP

Company holidays and vacation

Sick time

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Join Akamai Technologies, Inc. on the Cloud Data Services team to design and operate high-reliability data services and pipelines powering our core platform.

You will own end-to-end services, including DBs, data pipelines, and scalable microservices, while aligning with DBA and SRE partners and mentoring engineers. You will design distributed systems for scalability and consistency across regions, optimize PostgreSQL and Oracle databases, and contribute to high-throughput, low-latency workloads

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in software engineering or equivalent.
• Proficient in Python, Java, or Go with production-grade backend coding ability.
• Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL and relational databases, including design and high-availability setups.
• Experience designing, building, and scaling microservices in production.
• Strong grounding in data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs, containerization/orchestration, CI/CD, and major cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale backend data services and APIs for high-throughput workloads.
• Architect and evolve microservices with clear service boundaries and communication patterns.
• Design distributed systems for scalability, fault tolerance, and cross-region reliability.
• Maintain PostgreSQL and Oracle databases, schemas, indexing strategies, and high availability.
• Build and operate high-volume data pipelines end-to-end.
• Diagnose, resolve performance and reliability issues and mentor engineers on system design.

Skills

Python/Java/Go

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field

Tools

RESTful APIs

Containerization

Orchestration

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud platforms

PostgreSQL

Oracle databases

Job description

Join Akamai Technologies, Inc. on the Cloud Data Services team to design and operate high-reliability data services and pipelines powering our core platform.

You will own end-to-end services, including DBs, data pipelines, and scalable microservices, while aligning with DBA and SRE partners and mentoring engineers. You will design distributed systems for scalability and consistency across regions, optimize PostgreSQL and Oracle databases, and contribute to high-throughput, low-latency workloads