Do you want to build the next generation of Linode cloud storage?
Do you love leading and motivating successful teams?
Join the Linode Storage Engineering Team.
Our Storage Team is responsible for developing and maintaining Akamai's cloud storage platform for Linode. Our enterprise grade solution is an essential element to Akamai's Connected Cloud platform. We provide a scalable and secure storage solution for Linode's customers to build their businesses.
Partner with the best
As an Engineering Manager you will lead a team building highly usable, reliable and scalable storage solutions. Our platform empowers enterprises to create modern solutions to the world's problems.
As a Manager Software Development Engineer in Test, you will be responsible for:
- Managing and developing the team through hiring, training, coaching and mentoring
- Providing technical expertise and leadership for your team
- Participating in technical design, product specifications reviews, projects and backlog planning
- Planning your team's sprints, collaborating with Team Leads and your management peers
- Improving internal processes and systems on a consistent basis
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have relevant experience managing and maintaining high performing engineering teams
- Have extensive experience in an SDET role, testing software in a distributed, micro-services environment with a depth of experience using Python and Golang
- Build reliable, deterministic, and effective functional and non-functional test suites within a CI/CD/CT environment, showcasing proven expertise and experience.
- Have good knowledge of object storage and block storage technologies within cloud environments
- Have experience designing abstract software architectures from ideas through implementation and creatively apply domain experience to solve technical challenges
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.
Skills Required
- Experience managing and maintaining high performing engineering teams
- Extensive experience in an SDET role testing software in a distributed, micro-services environment
- Proven depth of experience using Python
- Proven depth of experience using Golang
- Ability to build reliable, deterministic functional and non-functional test suites within a CI/CD/CT environment
- Good knowledge of object storage and block storage technologies in cloud environments
- Experience designing abstract software architectures from idea through implementation
- Experience planning sprints and collaborating with team leads and management peers
- Experience hiring, training, coaching and mentoring engineering staff
- Experience improving internal processes and systems consistently
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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