Senior Manager Engineering (Akamai Cloud Experience)

Akamai•Cambridge, MA

15h•$173,900 - $313,100•Hybrid

About The Position

This role involves guiding essential teams that support the Akamai Compute platform's integration layer. The Senior Manager Engineering will be responsible for shaping strategy, improving the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and advancing service architecture. This includes overseeing Team Leads, Engineers, and Managers while ensuring the delivery of reliable, scalable, and secure solutions for diverse consumers.

Requirements

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.
Ability to communicate openly and respectfully, fostering a culture of ownership, integrity, and constructive collaboration across diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

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.