Senior Cloud Architect – Data Services

Oracle + Postgres
UNITED STATES
October 21, 2026
Full Time
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Job Description

Company: Akamai Technologies
Location: Cambridge, MA
Workplace Type: Remote
Employment Type: Full-time
Pay / Compensation: $169,300 – $304,700/year

About the 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 ingesting, processing, and serving high-volume, high-velocity data with strict requirements around availability, consistency, and performance.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

  • Cloud & Data Architecture Design: Designing scalable, secure, resilient, and highly available cloud and data architectures to support core platform capabilities.
  • Database Subject Matter Expertise: Serving as a subject matter expert for database architectures including PostgreSQL and Oracle, ensuring high performance and availability.
  • Distributed Database Engineering: Designing highly available, replicated, clustered, and geographically distributed database architectures.
  • Prototyping & R&D: Building prototypes, proof of concepts, and reference implementations to validate scalability and security, converting them into repeatable architecture patterns.
  • Technology Evaluation: Evaluating cloud technologies and determining suitability for new platform capabilities and services.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • Education & Experience: 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, or a related field.
  • Database Knowledge: Deep knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases including PostgreSQL, Oracle Database, and MongoDB.
  • Infrastructure as Code: Expertise in developing reusable infrastructure using Terraform modules, templates, and deployment patterns.
  • Scripting & Automation: Demonstrated ability to develop scripts and automation using Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages.
  • Distributed Systems: Understanding of distributed data systems designed for horizontal scalability and high availability.
  • In-Memory Technologies: Hands-on experience with in-memory and key-value technologies like Redis and Valkey.

Benefits & Perks

  • Comprehensive Healthcare: Medical, dental, and vision insurance options to support your health.
  • Financial Wellness: 401(k) savings plan and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) alongside competitive base compensation.
  • Work-Life Flexibility: FlexBase program offering hybrid and remote work arrangements to support employees doing their best work.
  • Paid Time Off: Comprehensive vacation policy in the form of PTO, company holidays, and sick time.
  • Family Support: Parental leave and comprehensive family-friendly benefits.

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