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ECCLESIASTES INC

Akamai Expert Engineer

Edgewater, NJ · On-site

$110K/yr

Akamai Expert Engineer (Green Card/USC) Core skills Manage confirmation for Akamai Automation of configuration mgt in Akamai tool Very hands on with Akamai CDN Responsibilities: · Design, develop ...

Ecclesiastes, Inc.

Akamai Expert Engineer

Edgewater, NJ · On-site

$110K/yr

Akamai Expert Engineer (Green Card/USC) Core skills Manage confirmation for Akamai Automation of configuration mgt in Akamai tool Very hands on with Akamai CDN Responsibilities: • Design, develop ...

Photon

Akamai Admin - Springfield, MO

Springfield, MO · On-site

Akamai Administrator We are seeking an experienced Akamai Administrator to join our IT team. The ideal candidate will manage and optimize Akamai content delivery network (CDN) services, ensuring high ...

Dexian DISYS

CDN Engineer - Akamai

Longmont, CO · On-site

$60 - $65/hr

Akamai CDN Engineer Secaucus, NJ OR Austin, TX OR San Jose, CA OR Longmont, CO 12 + Months $60-65/HR Role: Optimize Akamai CDN infrastructure. Must Have: Akamai and CDN performance. Dexian stands at ...

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Senior Manager Engineering (Akamai Cloud Experience)

Akamai

Cambridge, MA • On-site

$173K - $313K/yr

Full-time

Medical, Life, Retirement, PTO

Re-posted 12 days ago

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Do you thrive on building the future of Compute platform and high-scale services?
Are you prepared to guide a top-tier engineering team shaping the orchestration, security, and delivery of the Akamai Compute platform?
Join the Cloud Compute Experience Team
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.
Partner with the best
We are hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to guide essential teams supporting the Akamai Compute platform's integration layer. This role involves shaping strategy, improving SDLC, and advancing service architecture. Responsibilities include overseeing Team Leads, Engineers, and Managers while delivering reliable, scalable, and secure solutions for diverse consumers.
As a Senior Manager Engineering, you will be responsible for:
  • Driving the strategic direction and roadmap for Akamai Compute's customer-facing API and internal backend orchestration and support services.
  • Driving the architectural shift of these services to container orchestration and modular designs, enabling horizontal scalability and granular component ownership.
  • Establishing mechanisms to audit software lifecycles, enhancing service reliability, improving observability, and ensuring robust security for Akamai Compute.
  • Partnering with Product Management, SRE, Engineering leaders, SDET and various product teams to define requirements, integrate new features, and drive consistent, intuitive user experiences.
  • Fostering a growth-oriented, inclusive, and respectful culture. Mentor Senior and Principal engineers, drive technical leadership, and promote knowledge sharing across the organization.

Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
  • Have 10 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent
  • Demonstrate experience managing high-performing engineering teams in a cloud-engineering and web services environment
  • Possess background in architectural design, particularly with distributed systems, microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, and backend service integration.
  • Have track record of driving large-scale migrations, such as moving services to containerized orchestration or modularizing legacy systems to support business demand.
  • Have experience ensuring security, performance, and reliability (e.g., container scanning, managing single points of failure, disaster recovery planning) in mission-critical environments.
  • Have 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 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.
Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like!
Compensation
Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $173,900 - $313,100/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 in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

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