Engineering Manager

Title: Engineering Manager - West Coast

Location: United States

Department: Engineering

Job Description:

Description

Do you love leading and motivating others to deliver successful products?

Are you passionate about building compelling developer/user experiences?

Join our unique Edge Apps Engineering team

Our team is part of the Edge & Application Networking group within our Cloud Technology organization. We help thousands of enterprises around the world manage their websites and secure their transactions over the internet. Our globally distributed network can solve problems at a scale that few others can.

Partner with the best

You will lead a team of passionate developers driving Certificate workflow initiatives within the Edge Apps working group. Partnering with engineering and product teams, you will foster high ownership and engineering excellence while evolving processes for impactful execution. This role blends people leadership and technical vision, developing talent and identifying emerging technologies to keep the team industry-leading.

As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Leading a team of 5+ full stack engineers building distributed certificate workflow systems
• Owning system design, architecture, and SLOs ensuring scalability, performance, security, and availability
• Collaborating with product and program leadership to define roadmaps and delivery timelines
• Resolving complex production issues, handling escalations, and coach teams on debugging methodologies
• Driving observability strategy implementing automated anomaly detection to identify and remediate system deviations
• Building alignment across engineering, product, and operations while maintaining technical velocity and autonomy
• Developing high-performing engineers through mentorship, coaching, technical guidance and career development
• Pioneering AI automation integrating LLMs into production pipelines for autonomous reasoning and orchestration

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 8 years of relevant experience including 3 years leading engineering teams and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
• Have 5 years of industry Python and Java development with SQL/NoSQL databases and 3 years of TypeScript experience
• Have solid experience in system design fundamentals, distributed systems , Public Key Infrastructure, TLS, and orchestration workflows
• Demonstrate proven ability in resolving complex production issues and delivering solutions under pressure
• Possess ability to build and use automation tools to improve efficiency and operational excellence
• Have ACME protocol, Certificate Transparency logs, Kubernetes, Boulder, and Cert-Manager experience preferred
• Have hands-on experience building AI agents or integrating LLMs into production pipelines a plus

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply. 

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We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

About us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!

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Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $132,400 - $275,000/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.