Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?
Do you have passion for cutting edge technologies?
Join our Compute Team!
Our Edge Technology's Compute division, formerly Linode, consists of collaborative, inclusive, and creative teams. Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We do this while maintaining Akamai's mission to make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.
Partner with the best
In this role, you'll help lead our global team of SREs who manage & support our Linode's IAM (Identity and Access Management) services. Our SRE team works on tooling and software that monitors and improves the reliability, scalability, security, and usability of Cloud IAM applications.
As a Manager Site Reliability Engineering, you will be responsible for:
- Managing and mentoring a team of talented SRE engineers and unblocking team members with regards to technical and process hurdles.
- Partnering with stakeholders to understand and shape the product roadmap.
- Taking ownership for technical and product innovation, exercising design thinking, analyzing systems and developing solutions.
- Organizing and operating in an Agile environment to drive SRE activities.
- Focusing on team goals and building collaborative and effective working relationships through establishing commitments, accountability and trust.
- Contributing to internal research processes, methodologies, and approaches to create and share best practices
- Diagnosing system performance and reliability together with the team of Site Reliability Engineers
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 10+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent.
- Possess experience in SRE or Development role, working with large scale distributed systems.
- Have experience leading and mentoring a team.
- Have experience building with cloud native technologies and cloud deployments at scale.
- Demonstrate experience with Container Runtimes (e.g. docker, containers, etc), Go, Python, or Bash scripting
- Be familiar with software development practices and product life cycles through build, test, deploy, and iterative environments.
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
- 10+ years of relevant experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Experience in Site Reliability Engineering or software development
- Experience working with large-scale distributed systems
- Experience leading and mentoring a team
- Experience building with cloud-native technologies and deploying cloud systems at scale
- Experience with container runtimes such as Docker
- Experience with Go, Python, or Bash scripting
- Familiarity with software development practices and product lifecycles, including build, test, deployment, and iterative environments
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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