Senior Manager Engineering; Akamai Cloud

Do you thrive on building the future of Compute platform and high-scale services?

Are you prepared to guide a top-tier engineering team shaping the orchestration, security, and delivery of the Akamai Compute platform?

The Compute Cloud Experience team provides the integration layer for Akamai's Compute platform, supporting global infrastructure management. Core engineering teams develop services handling control plane requests, enabling data abstraction, configuration, and observability. Internal units like Support, SRE, and Trust & Safety use these tools to manage the cloud backplane. The team ensures the platform stays reliable, secure, and adaptable.

We are hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to guide essential teams supporting the Akamai Compute platform's integration layer. This role involves shaping strategy, improving SDLC, and advancing service architecture. Responsibilities include overseeing Team Leads, Engineers, and Managers while delivering reliable, scalable, and secure solutions for diverse consumers.

To be successful in this role you will:

• Driving the strategic direction and roadmap for Akamai Compute's customer-facing API and internal backend orchestration and support services.

• Driving the architectural shift of these services to container orchestration and modular designs, enabling horizontal scalability and granular component ownership.

• Establishing mechanisms to audit software life cycles, enhancing service reliability, improving observability, and ensuring robust security for Akamai Compute.

• Partnering with Product Management, SRE, Engineering leaders, SDET and various product teams to define requirements, integrate new features, and drive consistent, intuitive user experiences.

• Fostering a growth-oriented, inclusive, and respectful culture. Mentor Senior and Principal engineers, drive technical leadership, and promote knowledge sharing across the organization.

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:

Running apps closer to users for instant performance.

Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.

Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.

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.

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Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $173,900 - $313,100/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).

Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness;
Eligibility requirements apply.

Akamai Technologies is an Affiant, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.