10 hours ago
Remote, Canada or Ottawa, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale backend data services and APIs for high-throughput, low-latency workloads.
- Architect and evolve microservices, including service boundaries, communication patterns, and failure isolation.
- Design distributed systems for scalability, fault tolerance, consistency, and multi-region reliability.
- Optimize and maintain PostgreSQL and Oracle databases, schemas, indexes, and high-availability configurations.
- Build and maintain high-volume, high-velocity data pipelines while owning services end to end.
- Diagnose and resolve complex performance, scalability, and reliability issues.
- Provide technical oversight, clarify requirements, drive execution, collaborate with DBA and SRE partners, and mentor engineers on system design.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Production-grade backend development experience with 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 microservices architectures in production.
- Knowledge of DBA tasks, data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis.
- Knowledge of RESTful APIs, containerization, orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and major cloud platforms.
Benefits
- Base salary ranges from 120,400 to 216,600 CAD per year, with potential bonus or incentive compensation, equity awards, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Benefits include healthcare, RRSP, company holidays, PTO, sick time, employee assistance, and family-friendly, mental-wellness, and financial-wellness benefits; eligibility requirements apply.
- Akamai’s FlexBase program supports working from home, in an office, or through a combination of both.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Akamai
Akamai builds content delivery, cloud security, and edge compute services for enterprises that run consumer and business web, API, and video workloads. The public company (NASDAQ: AKAM), founded in 1998 and headquartered in Cambridge, MA, operates a global CDN and security platform and sells via subscriptions and usage-based services. It expanded into cloud infrastructure by acquiring Linode in 2022, offering IaaS and managed Kubernetes.