Would you like the opportunity to solve technical challenges?
Are you excited about working with cutting-edge technologies?
Join our cutting-edge team!
Our Edge Compute division designs/develops technology that helps our customers improve their Web and Media content delivery. Leveraging our global servers, we help them build rich online browsing and entertainment experiences with unique, secure and innovative solutions. Our talented teams develop applications and services to make life online better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Make a difference to a vital part of our business
In this role you will bridge the gap between Software Engineering and QA, driving automated build and deployment systems, enforcing release gating, and maintaining lab infrastructure health.Additionally, as part of an evolving team, you will also have the opportunity to expand into broader DevOps practicesbuilding AI agents into automated and intelligent production investigation tooling into our operational workflows.
As a Senior Release Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Designing and maintaining scalable pipelines and develop custom agentic and CLI tools to optimize build workflows.
- Acting as the final release authority, enforcing strict release scheduling, quality gates and compliance checks in coordination with QA and Engineering.
- Identifying, triaging, and resolving environment-level issues (build node outages, test lab provisioning failures, network/dependency blocks) to keep pipeline throughput high.
- Integrating AI agents and eval frameworks into CI/CD pipelines to automate testing and log analysis
- Participating in a larger agentic devops group designing AI agents that can handle production issue monitoring and escalation triaging and management
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 5+ years of experience in Software Release Engineering, DevOps, or Build/Test Automation roles
- Possess expertise in continuous integration and delivery tools (e.g., Cloudbee, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
- Demonstrate proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Bash. Knowledge of Ruby is ideal
- Have experience with Docker and container registry management
- Have working knowledge of Linux system
- Have working knowledge of AI tooling and agentic workflow
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 79,600 - 143,400 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
- 5+ years of experience in Software Release Engineering, DevOps, or Build/Test Automation roles
- Expertise with continuous integration and delivery tools such as CloudBees, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI
- Proficiency in Python and Bash
- Experience with Docker and container registry management
- Working knowledge of Linux systems
- Working knowledge of AI tooling and agentic workflows
- Knowledge of Ruby
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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