Are you excited to work on innovative enterprise security products?
Are you passionate about securing user activity across browsers, desktop applications, and AI tools?
Partner with the best
LayerX (now Akamai) turns any browser or desktop into a secure workspace. We protect your apps, data, and devices from web risks and AI leaks in real time, with zero impact on user experience.
Akamai Workforce Protector team!
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineering Team Lead to build and lead a high-performing software engineering team from scratch. You will own the roadmap and vision, ensuring full alignment with business goals.
In this role you will be:
- Building and leading a high-performing software engineering team from scratch.
- Owning the roadmap and vision, ensuring alignment with business goals.
- Hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers, fostering technical excellence and a culture of continuous improvement.
- Taking full ownership of team execution, ensuring high-quality, secure, and scalable software.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including Product Management, Security, and DevOps, to deliver impactful solutions.
- Contributing to architectural and strategic decisions, balancing innovation with reliability.
- Empowering engineers with autonomy, guiding them toward technical and professional growth.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- 2+ years' experience as a Software Engineering Team Leader at a SaaS company.
- 5+ years of experience as a Senior Software Engineer in a SaaS company.
- Have experience leading teams in a cloud-native environment, with a focus on microservices, distributed systems, and high-scale applications.
- Have a technical background in AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and modern development frameworks.
- Demonstrate mentorship and leadership skills, with a track record of growing engineers into contributors and leaders.
- Be able to balance technical depth with high-level strategic thinking, driving both execution and vision.
- Be a problem-solver with decision-making ability in a high-impact environment.
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
- 2+ years experience as a Software Engineering Team Leader at a SaaS company
- 5+ years experience as a Senior Software Engineer in a SaaS company
- Experience leading teams in a cloud-native environment focused on microservices, distributed systems, and high-scale applications
- Technical background in AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with modern development frameworks
- Demonstrated mentorship and leadership skills with a track record of growing engineers
- Ability to balance technical depth with strategic thinking and make high-impact decisions
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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