Director Engineering

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Atlanta (GA); In loco; USD 204.000 - 366.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Health insurance

401k savings plan

Equity awards

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Parental leave

Vacation / PTO

Flexible work options (home/office)

Descrizione del lavoro

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Director of Engineering for the Platform IAM team in a global leadership role. You will guide the engineering strategy, architecture, and execution of massive-scale IAM systems, leading a multi-national team to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing software.

Your experience should include leading large distributed teams, deep IAM knowledge, and exceptional communication to align remote, global stakeholders across the organization.

Competenze

• 15 years of relevant experience in engineering leadership.
• Extensive experience leading large, distributed software engineering teams delivering innovative products.
• Deep understanding of the IAM ecosystem.

Mansioni

• Manage mentoring and grow a global team of managers, engineers, and architects.
• Drive the technical roadmap for the IAM platform focusing on scalability, resilience, and low-latency AuthZ.
• Oversee end-to-end SDLC ensuring high quality, safety, and performance of code.
• Partner with other teams to translate business vision into concrete technical milestones.

Conoscenze

Leadership of large teams

IAM ecosystem

Communication & stakeholder mgmt

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Descrizione del lavoro

Are you passionate about cutting edge technology?

Do you want an opportunity to lead an amazing team of managers and engineers?

Join our Akamai Platform IAM team!

The Platform IAM team is part of Akamai's Cloud Technology Group. We design and operate customer-facing platforms enabling customers to configure and control their delivery, security, and cloud assets. This team owns the IAM tool sets for Akamai's customers using the Akamai Control Center website and the Cloud Manager website. We ensure customers have what they need to configure users for quality, safety, and performance.

Partner with the best

As the Director of Engineering, you will be in a high-impact, global leadership role responsible for steering the engineering strategy, architecture, and execution of Akamai's IAM platform. This leader will scale a high-performing, globally distributed engineering organization to deliver massive-scale, feature-rich, and performant IAM systems.

As the Director of Engineering, you will be responsible for:

• Managing mentoring, and growing a large, multidisciplinary global team of managers, software engineers, and architects

• Driving the technical roadmap for the IAM platform, ensuring the platform is highly scalable, resilient, and optimized for global, low-latency AuthZ

• Overseeing the end-to-end software development lifecycle to ensure all code meets our high standards for quality, safety and performance.

• Partnering closely with other teams to translate business vision into concrete technical milestones,

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 15 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or its equivalent

• Have extensive experience leading large, distributed software engineering teams with a track record of delivering innovative software products

• Possess a deep understanding of the IAM ecosystem

• Have exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with a proven track record of aligning remote, global teams

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. (https://www.akamai.com/careers/working-at-akamai?utm_source=akamai&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benefits)

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We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

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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 $203,600 - $366,400/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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