Senior Manager Engineering

Akamai•Cambridge, MA

19d•$173,900 - $313,100•Hybrid

About The Position

Join Akamai's Infrastructure Security team to build the customer-facing applications and APIs that help enterprises configure, monitor, and manage critical DNS and IP Acceleration services. Our products operate at Internet scale, where performance, reliability, security, and usability are essential. You'll lead teams creating intuitive experiences that help customers manage critical services with confidence. Shape the future of the internet. You will lead teams building customer-facing applications and APIs for our DNS and IP Acceleration products. The role combines people leadership, technical leadership, and delivery ownership across a portfolio of established products and new capabilities.

Requirements

10 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Management Information Systems, or another related field
Possess years of experience leading software engineering teams across multiple products or workstreams.
Bring solid technical depth in modern software development, including backend services, REST APIs, distributed systems, and web application architectures.
Demonstrate success developing senior engineers and technical leads while balancing delegation, technical oversight, and accountability for results
Show experience delivering complex software through collaboration with Product Management, Quality Engineering, Architecture, and other engineering teams
Communicate effectively across technical and business audiences while navigating ambiguity, competing priorities, technical disagreements, and organizational complexity

Responsibilities

Leading multiple engineering teams responsible for customer-facing web applications, APIs, and services across a broad DNS product portfolio
Developing engineers and technical leads through clear expectations, regular feedback, coaching, career development, and thoughtful delegation of ownership
Driving predictable delivery by translating product priorities into executable plans, managing dependencies, identifying risks early, and holding teams accountable for outcomes
Guiding technical direction and engineering practices while empowering senior engineers to own architecture, design, implementation, testing, and operational readiness
Partnering closely with Product Management, Architecture, SQA, and peer engineering teams to resolve ambiguity, align priorities, and deliver cohesive customer experiences
Improving engineering effectiveness through pragmatic processes, solid operational practices, technical debt management, automation, and continuous improvement