Akamai Technologies · 8 hours ago
Director Engineering - WebAssembly
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$184K/yr - $381K/yr
12+ years expAkamai Technologies is a leading company that powers and protects life online. They are seeking a Director of Engineering to lead their Edge Apps Engineering group, responsible for the end-to-end engineering lifecycle and ensuring high-performance, secure, and scalable solutions.
Cyber SecurityDigital MediaSaaSSoftwareVideo Streaming
Responsibilities
Supporting the technical strategy for our next-generation product infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security for millions of concurrent executions
Owning the platform's end-to-end SLOs, upholding high standards for system availability, latency, and performance through a robust SRE practice
Developing and executing observability strategy and roadmap that aligns with SLO targets
Overseeing contributions to/investments in the open-source Wasm-based runtime and tooling, as well as our proprietary control and data-planes
Driving the implementation of secure, automated CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates to ensure consistent global delivery
Qualification
Required
12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or its equivalent
A proven track record of delivering high-quality, resilient, supportable software, ideally having reached a Staff or Principal level
Experience building and scaling high-throughput distributed systems that directly serve live production traffic
Familiarity with serverless computing paradigms and modern cloud-native architectures (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP)
An understanding of SRE principles, including error budgets, SLIs/SLOs, and automated incident management
Proficiency in IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation) and modern CI/CD frameworks (GitHub Actions, CloudBees, Jenkins)
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
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.63BKey Investors
IVP
2025-05-14Post Ipo Debt· $1.5B
2023-08-15Post Ipo Debt· $1.1B
2001-08-01Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
Tom Leighton
Chief Executive Officer
Charlie Gero
CTO
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