Do you thrive on managing complexity?
Are you a highly experienced engineering leader?
Join our Data Engineering Team!
The Data Engineering team is part of the Cloud Technology Group which delivers cutting-edge cloud, edge and AI products to Akamai customers. We design, implement, deploy and operate data streaming platforms. Our primary mission is to enable Akamai product teams to develop high-performing operationally safe and secure products.
Partner with the best
As an Engineering Manager, you will lead and grow a team of system software and platform engineers. Your team will enhance platform core services. They will design and develop Customer and Operational Intelligence services for managing 100% availability and three 9's performance and reliability SLOs for FedRAMP, GDPR and SOX compliant data streaming platforms with 100% customer satisfaction.
As a Manager Engineering, you will be responsible for:
- Engineering Leadership & Talent Development: Lead and grow a high-performing team by recruiting, coaching, and managing performance. Foster a culture of technical excellence, mentorship, and accountability, ensuring the team consistently delivers high-quality engineering outcomes
- Lead-by-Example Technical Contribution: Serve as the primary technical escalation point, stepping in as a senior contributor for critical coding, debugging, and architecture fixes to ensure delivery
- Owning Architecture: Own system design, architecture, and reliability (SLOs) for data streaming platforms, balancing long-term scalability with immediate delivery needs
- Striving to Operational Excellence & Compliance: Drive observability, automation, and process improvements to ensure system reliability and adherence to FedRAMP, GDPR, and SOX standards
- Maintaining Strategic Stakeholder Alignment: Partner with product and business stakeholders to define technical roadmaps, manage backlogs, and align cross-team delivery timelines
- Driving Innovation: Identify and integrate emerging technologies to enhance platform capabilities, reduce engineering barriers, and cutting edge performant stack
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have relevant experience as a system or platform engineer with a focus on cloud services
- Demonstrate experience with software development using Golang, Python, Rust/C++ or Java
- Have a working knowledge of contemporary CI/CD practices and tooling including deployment/configuration tools
- Have experience with massive data platforms ( Spark, Kafka, etc) and design principles
- Demonstrate experience with Observability, Performance Analytics and Security tools (e.g. VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, CloudWatch, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, DataDog)
- Be experienced with deployment/configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Fabric)
- Have experience in troubleshooting complex Distributed Systems problems and handling customers' escalations
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
- Masters diploma in Computer Science or related field
- 12+ years in software development with at least 3 languages
- 10+ years expertise in distributed systems architecture
- 8+ years in DevOps practices and CI/CD tools
- 8+ years experience with observability and performance analytics
- Practical experience with big data platforms like Hadoop and Spark
- Expert-level skills in bash scripting, SQL, and REST API design
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.
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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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