Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Akamai Technologies is a leading company in cloud technology, seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of developers in building distributed certificate workflow systems. The role involves system design, collaboration with product teams, and fostering engineering excellence while developing talent within the team.
Responsibilities
- Leading a team of 5+ full stack engineers building distributed certificate workflow systems
- Owning system design, architecture, and SLOs ensuring scalability, performance, security, and availability
- Collaborating with product and program leadership to define roadmaps and delivery timelines
- Resolving complex production issues, handling escalations, and coach teams on debugging methodologies
- Driving observability strategy implementing automated anomaly detection to identify and remediate system deviations
- Building alignment across engineering, product, and operations while maintaining technical velocity and autonomy
- Developing high-performing engineers through mentorship, coaching, technical guidance and career development
- Pioneering AI automation integrating LLMs into production pipelines for autonomous reasoning and orchestration
Skills
- 8 years of relevant experience including 3 years leading engineering teams and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
- 5 years of industry Python and Java development with SQL/NoSQL databases and 3 years of TypeScript experience
- Solid experience in system design fundamentals, distributed systems, Public Key Infrastructure, TLS, and orchestration workflows
- Proven ability in resolving complex production issues and delivering solutions under pressure
- Ability to build and use automation tools to improve efficiency and operational excellence
- ACME protocol, Certificate Transparency logs, Kubernetes, Boulder, and Cert-Manager experience preferred
- Hands-on experience building AI agents or integrating LLMs into production pipelines a plus
Benefits
- Incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives
- Equity awards
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Healthcare
- 401K savings plan
- Company holidays
- Vacation (in the form of PTO)
- Sick time
- Family friendly benefits including parental leave
- Employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply
- FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world
- FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised)
- This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere
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