Senior Manager Engineering (Akamai Cloud Experience)

About the role

The Compute Cloud Experience team provides the integration layer for Akamai's Compute platform, supporting global infrastructure management. Core engineering teams develop services handling control plane requests, enabling data abstraction, configuration, and observability. Internal units like Support, SRE, and Trust & Safety use these tools to manage the cloud backplane. The team ensures the platform stays reliable, secure, and adaptable.

Responsibilities

• Drive the strategic direction and roadmap for Akamai Compute's customer-facing API and internal backend orchestration and support services.
• Drive the architectural shift of these services to container orchestration and modular designs, enabling horizontal scalability and granular component ownership.
• Establish mechanisms to audit software lifecycles, enhancing service reliability, improving observability, and ensuring robust security for Akamai Compute.
• Partner with Product Management, SRE, Engineering leaders, SDET, and various product teams to define requirements, integrate new features, and drive consistent, intuitive user experiences.
• Foster a growth-oriented, inclusive, and respectful culture. Mentor Senior and Principal engineers, drive technical leadership, and promote knowledge sharing across the organization.

Requirements

• 10 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
• Experience managing high-performing engineering teams in a cloud-engineering and web services environment.
• Background in architectural design, particularly with distributed systems, microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, and backend service integration.
• Track record of driving large-scale migrations, such as moving services to containerized orchestration or modularizing legacy systems to support business demand.
• Experience ensuring security, performance, and reliability (e.g., container scanning, managing single points of failure, disaster recovery planning) in mission-critical environments.
• Ability to communicate openly and respectfully, fostering a culture of ownership, integrity, and constructive collaboration across diverse stakeholders.

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 includes:

• 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

Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including:

• Healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), and sick time.
• Family-friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program with a focus on mental and financial wellness.
• Incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).

Eligibility requirements apply.

Pay

For US-based candidates only: the base salary for this position ranges from $173,900 to $313,100 per year. A candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications, and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities.

Schedule

Akamai's FlexBase program supports employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.