Job Description

Do you have a passion for cutting edge technologies and tackling system problems?

Do you enjoy solving large scale distributed systems problems?

Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team

Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai’s Compute products and services. We do all of this while maintaining Akamai’s mission at the forefront of what we do: make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will lead a team executing on database strategies and take responsibility for the day to day operations, integrity, architecture, modeling, security, and performance tuning for our MySQL databases. You’ll play a key role in managing and improving the health and stability of our MySQL instances. You’ll regularly partner with development and systems groups to provide deep subject matter expertise in various projects.

​​As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Database administration; install, configure, upgrade, and migrate existing databases
• Responding to and resolving database related requests from other departments
• Defining database requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence the new designs and standards
• Identifying data security related issues and help with improving overall security of the database environment
• Providing support, leadership and motivation for project teams
• Collaborating with our support, operations and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems
• Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues
• Other tasks as required

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have a degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Have 4+ years of experience with MySQL/Percona Server with focus on Innodb storage engine and internals and experience in deploying and managing schemas in a distributed high availability environment
• Have experience managing DDL changes in a high volume OLTP environment. Also, possess an understanding of MySQL Replication principles, replication topologies and managing topologies through Orchestrator
• Have experience working with developers helping them with database development including schema design, indexing strategies and query optimization
• Have in-depth knowledge of MySQL and ProxySQL configuration and management, backup strategies and disaster recovery scenarios.

• Possess real world experience using Percona toolkit and other database tools to help with database activities in a high traffic environment and have experience in configuring and monitoring ProxySQL in a high traffic environment to support load balancing/HA/mirroring

  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.

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