Engineering Manager - West Coast

Job Description

Do you love leading and motivating others to deliver successful products?

Are you passionate about building compelling developer/user experiences?

Join our unique Edge Apps Engineering team

Our team is part of the Edge & Application Networking group within our Cloud Technology organization. We help thousands of enterprises around the world manage their websites and secure their transactions over the internet. Our globally distributed network can solve problems at a scale that few others can.

Partner with the best

You will lead a team of passionate developers driving Certificate workflow initiatives within the Edge Apps working group. Partnering with engineering and product teams, you will foster high ownership and engineering excellence while evolving processes for impactful execution. This role blends people leadership and technical vision, developing talent and identifying emerging technologies to keep the team industry-leading.

As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Leading a team of 5+ full stack engineers building distributed certificate workflow systems
• Owning system design, architecture, and SLOs ensuring scalability, performance, security, and availability
• Collaborating with product and program leadership to define roadmaps and delivery timelines
• Resolving complex production issues, handling escalations, and coach teams on debugging methodologies
• Driving observability strategy implementing automated anomaly detection to identify and remediate system deviations
• Building alignment across engineering, product, and operations while maintaining technical velocity and autonomy
• Developing high-performing engineers through mentorship, coaching, technical guidance and career development
• Pioneering AI automation integrating LLMs into production pipelines for autonomous reasoning and orchestration

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 8 years of relevant experience including 3 years leading engineering teams and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
• Have 5 years of industry Python and Java development with SQL/No
  
  SQL databases and 3 years of Type Script experience
• Have solid experience in system design fundamentals, distributed systems , Public Key Infrastructure, TLS, and orchestration workflows
• Demonstrate proven ability in resolving complex production issues and delivering solutions under pressure
• Possess ability to build and use automation tools to improve efficiency and operational excellence
• Have ACME protocol, Certificate Transparency logs, Kubernetes, Boulder, and Cert-Manager experience preferred
• Have hands-on experience building AI agents or integrating LLMs into production pipelines a plus

Work in a way that works for you

Flex Base, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. Flex Base, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised).

This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

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