Are you passionate about cutting edge technology?
Do you enjoy working with a diverse multinational team of engineering talents?
Join our Cloud Data Services team!
Our Cloud Data Services team designs, builds, and operates high-reliability, high-scale data services and pipelines powering core Akamai platform capabilities. The team owns systems that ingest, process, and serve high-volume, high-velocity data. We maintain strict requirements around availability, consistency, and performance.
Partner with the best
You will join a global team delivering high-quality data services. You will balance technical oversight and development with clarifying requirements, and driving execution. You will ensure alignment with DBA and SRE partners while providing hands-on technical development
As a Senior II Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Designing, building, and scaling backend data services and APIs supporting high-throughput, low-latency workloads
- Architecting and evolving microservices, including service boundaries, communication patterns, and failure isolation
- Designing distributed systems for scalability, fault tolerance, consistency, and reliability across multiple regions
- Optimizing and maintaining PostgreSQL and Oracle relational database systems, schemas, indexing strategies, and high-availability setups
- Building and maintaining high-volume, high-velocity data pipelines while owning services end-to-end
- Diagnosing and resolving complex performance, scalability, and reliability issues while mentoring engineers on system design
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or its equivalent
- Have experience in Python, Java, or Go with solid ability to write production-grade, maintainable backend code
- Have deep knowledge of PostgreSQL and relational databases including schema design, query optimization, and high-availability configurations
- Possess experience designing, building, and scaling microservices architectures in production environments
- Demonstrate solid grounding in DBA tasks, data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis
- Be knowledgeable in RESTful APIs, containerization, orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and major cloud platforms
About us
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.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
FlexBase adapts to your job's needs
Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
Compensation
Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from 120,400 - 216,600 CAD/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, RRSP, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.
Skills Required
- 8 years of relevant software engineering experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
- Production-grade backend programming experience in Python, Java, or Go
- Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL and relational databases, including schema design, query optimization, and high-availability configurations
- Experience designing, building, and scaling production microservices architectures
- Experience with DBA tasks, data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis
- Knowledge of RESTful APIs, containerization, orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and major cloud platforms
Akamai Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Akamai Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Akamai Technologies.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO in the U.S., wellness days, paid volunteering time, and the FlexBase model contribute to broad time‑off flexibility. These practices are described as supporting strong work‑life balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leaves, paid family care leave, subsidized backup childcare, and inclusive family‑building benefits via Carrot form a comprehensive family support suite. Coverage spans fertility support through caregiving resources.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a substantial company match and immediate vesting, plus Roth and Mega Backdoor Roth options, underpin long‑term savings. These features provide reliable long‑term savings opportunities.
Akamai Technologies Insights
What We Do
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every moment, billions of people, all over the world, are using the internet to shop, play games, look after finances, learn remotely, share videos, connect across the world, and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission, and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges, and turning the impossible into the possible. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Do you want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!
Why Work With Us
Our people are devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence, and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse, and we love to collaborate across the world.
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