Senior Manager Engineering

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 313,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Equity awards

ESPP

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead multiple customer-facing web applications, APIs, and services across a broad DNS product portfolio.

You will translate product priorities into executable plans, guide architecture decisions, and mentor engineers and technical leads to deliver reliable, scalable software. You will partner with Product Management and Architecture to shape technical direction, drive delivery, and improve engineering effectiveness through

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering leadership experience.
• Experience leading multiple engineering teams across products/workstreams.
• Strong depth in modern software development, backend services, REST APIs, distributed systems, and web architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams responsible for customer-facing web applications, APIs, and services across a broad DNS product portfolio.
• Develop engineers and technical leads through clear expectations, feedback, coaching, career development, and delegation.
• Drive predictable delivery by translating product priorities into executable plans and managing risks.

Skills

People leadership

Technical depth

Backend services

REST APIs

Distributed systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Would the opportunity to work with Akamai's cutting edge services excite you?

Are you interested in tackling complex challenges on the internet to create the best solutions for our customers?

Work with industry leading software technology

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.

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for:

• 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

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 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

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)

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.

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 $173,900 - $313,100/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.

Equal Employment Opportunity Rights

Akamai Technologies is an Affir... All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.