Director Engineering - WebAssembly

Akamai

18d

About The Position

Are you a highly experienced engineering leader?
Do you want an opportunity to lead an amazing team of engineers?
Join our Edge Apps Engineering group!
This Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) team builds on the cutting-edge WebAssembly (Wasm) ecosystem. Our platform is highly distributed, positioned to redefine edge compute by offering a high-performance, secure, and language-agnostic alternative to AWS Lambda @ Edge and Cloudflare Workers.
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As a Director of Engineering, you will be responsible for the end-to-end engineering lifecycle, from the architectural design of our global runtime to the operational implementation of our SRE practices.

Requirements

• Have 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or its equivalent.
• Have a proven track record of delivering high-quality, resilient, supportable software, ideally having reached a Staff or Principal level.
• Demonstrate experience building and scaling high-throughput distributed systems that directly serve live production traffic.
• Possess familiarity with serverless computing paradigms and modern cloud-native architectures (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Have an understanding of SRE principles, including error budgets, SLIs/SLOs, and automated incident management.
• Have proficiency in IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation) and modern CI/CD frameworks (GitHub Actions, CloudBees, Jenkins).

Responsibilities

• Supporting the technical strategy for our next-generation product infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security for millions of concurrent executions.
• Owning the platform's end-to-end SLOs, upholding high standards for system availability, latency, and performance through a robust SRE practice.
• Developing and executing observability strategy and roadmap that aligns with SLO targets.
• Overseeing contributions to/investments in the open-source Wasm-based runtime and tooling, as well as our proprietary control and data-planes.
• Driving the implementation of secure, automated CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates to ensure consistent global delivery.

Benefits

• opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things.
• benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future.
• benefits surrounding all aspects of your life: Your health Your finances Your family Your time at work Your time pursuing other endeavors
• benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees