Senior II Software Engineer - Data Services

About this role

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 optimiz...