Are you a hands-on people-focused engineering leader who enjoys leading high-performing teams to solve complex problems?
Are you passionate about cutting edge technology?
Join our Platform IAM Engineering Team
The Akamai Platform IAM team is part of Akamai's Cloud Technology Group. We design and operate customer-facing platforms enabling customers to configure and control their cloud assets. This team owns the IAM tool sets for Akamai's customers using the Cloud Manager website. We ensure customers have what they need to configure users for quality, safety, and performance.
Partner with the best
You will join a global team and lead a team of engineers responsible for delivering high-quality IAM features and tools. You'll balance technical oversight with people management, coaching engineers, clarifying requirements, driving execution, and ensuring alignment with product and SRE partners. While you will bring engineering expertise, your role will focus on leadership, mentorship, and technical direction over hands-on development.
As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for:
- Managing, mentoring, and developing a team of engineers proficient in enterprise IAM concepts
- Providing technical guidance and setting best practices for back-end architecture and development
- Providing technical guidance and setting best practices for back-end architecture and development
- Partnering with product management, QA, SRE, Senior Leadership, and other engineering teams to deliver cohesive user experiences
- Having oversight of delivery across the full project lifecycle: organizing, planning, development, testing, and release
- Driving consistency through tooling and engineering standards
- Supporting hiring, onboarding, performance feedback, and career growth for team members
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Demonstrate solid knowledge of back-end technologies including Python
- Demonstrate solid understanding and experience with large, low-latency, and highly-available distributed systems
- Have experience with IAM concepts and platforms
- Possess a clear understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Agile planning
- Have prior leadership experience and excellent communication skills and a passion for building inclusive, high-performing engineering teams
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.
Compensation
Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from 129,400 - 232,800 CAD/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications. 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, RRSP, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.
Skills Required
- 8 years of relevant engineering experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Knowledge of backend technologies, including Python
- Experience with large, low-latency, highly available distributed systems
- Experience with Identity and Access Management concepts and platforms
- Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle and Agile planning
- Prior engineering leadership experience
- Excellent communication skills
- Experience building inclusive, high-performing engineering teams
Akamai Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Akamai Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Akamai Technologies.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO in the U.S., wellness days, paid volunteering time, and the FlexBase model contribute to broad time‑off flexibility. These practices are described as supporting strong work‑life balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leaves, paid family care leave, subsidized backup childcare, and inclusive family‑building benefits via Carrot form a comprehensive family support suite. Coverage spans fertility support through caregiving resources.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a substantial company match and immediate vesting, plus Roth and Mega Backdoor Roth options, underpin long‑term savings. These features provide reliable long‑term savings opportunities.
Akamai Technologies Insights
What We Do
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every moment, billions of people, all over the world, are using the internet to shop, play games, look after finances, learn remotely, share videos, connect across the world, and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission, and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges, and turning the impossible into the possible. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Do you want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!
Why Work With Us
Our people are devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence, and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse, and we love to collaborate across the world.
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