[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Akamai

Role 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.

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 coaching 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

Qualifications

• 8 years of relevant experience including 3 years leading engineering teams and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
• 5 years of industry Python and Java development with SQL/NoSQL databases and 3 years of TypeScript experience
• Solid experience in system design fundamentals, distributed systems, Public Key Infrastructure, TLS, and orchestration workflows
• Proven ability in resolving complex production issues and delivering solutions under pressure
• Ability to build and use automation tools to improve efficiency and operational excellence
• ACME protocol, Certificate Transparency logs, Kubernetes, Boulder, and Cert-Manager experience preferred
• Hands-on experience building AI agents or integrating LLMs into production pipelines a plus

Benefits

• FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, allows 95% of employees the choice to work from home, the office, or both
• Opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things
• Benefits surrounding all aspects of your life: health, finances, family, time at work, and time pursuing other endeavors
• 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

Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US-based candidates only, the base salary for this position ranges from $132,400 - $275,000/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).