Akamai Technologies · 11 hours ago
Senior Engineering Manager - Akamai Inference Cloud (Remote)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$156K/yr - $323K/yr
10+ years expAkamai Technologies is a leading company in AI infrastructure and edge computing. They are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to build and lead a high-performing team responsible for designing and developing a globally-distributed AI inference platform.
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Responsibilities
Building and scaling a world-class engineering team from the ground up, recruiting top talent in AI infrastructure and ML operations
Leading the technical strategy for a global AI inference platform that is performant, compliant, economical, and explainable
Providing the availability, performance, scalability, and security of Akamai Inference Cloud
Designing global traffic orchestration for AI workloads and establishing platform standards and blueprints for production-grade AI applications
Making critical decisions on AI tooling based on technical evaluation while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements (i.e. FedRAMP, GDPR, SOX)
Qualification
Required
10 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent experience building and scaling high-performing teams that shipped successful AI/ML products
Possess hands-on experience with AI inference optimization, model serving, and LLM deployment at scale with deep knowledge of inference frameworks (TensorRT, vLLM, TorchServe, Triton)
Have an understanding of containerization strategies for AI workloads with hardware-specific optimizations, and possess opinions on what makes an AI platform successful
Show proficiency with cloud-native technologies including Kubernetes and distributed systems with proven experience operating services at global scale
Demonstrate expertise in building highly available, low-latency platforms with strict SLOs and cost optimization strategies for compute-intensive AI workloads
Preferred
Knowledge of AI application platforms
AI safety and GPU infrastructure
Hardware acceleration is ideal
Benefits
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
Company
Akamai Technologies
Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$2.63BKey Investors
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2025-05-14Post Ipo Debt· $1.5B
2023-08-15Post Ipo Debt· $1.1B
2001-08-01Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
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Chief Executive Officer
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