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Director..Engineering
Akamai
Santa Clara, CA, United States
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About the Job
We are looking for a talented and driven director of engineering to lead our global platform and infrastructure engineering team. The platform and infrastructure engineering team is responsible for developing the backend and infrastructure software that powers our Enterprise Application Access product line. The backend and infrastructure software is essentially micro-services based application environment, primarily developed using the Python Django and Celery environment.
About the Team
Our team is part of the Enterprise organization, which has the responsibility for building the technologies in the areas of Enterprise Application Access, Enterprise Application Acceleration and Enterprise Application Security.
Akamai’s global footprint of over 200,000 servers provides an overlay network with scale and capacity to not just deliver the largest web events but also secure the largest Internet brands from attack. The team builds and extends Akamai’s highly fault-tolerant wide area distributed content delivery and application acceleration systems to improve performance, security, reliability and availability of high value web sites. Akamai powers over 85% of the top online retailers, with over $100 billion in annual revenue.
As a Director of Engineering, you will be responsible for:
• Working closely with other functional groups to define priorities, direction and timelines
• Drive and lead technical architecture of EAA platform software ensuring performance, scalability, high availability and security
• Own design, development, testing and deployment of platform software for EAA product.
• Communicating clearly and honestly with stakeholders about progress, roadblocks, and timelines.
• Recruiting, mentoring, and leading a team of talented technical leads and engineers.
• Handling day-to-day management tasks such as performance reviews, time off, HR Coordination.
Required Qualifications
• 15+ years of software engineering experience.
• 8+ years of experience leading engineering and development teams or projects.
• Experience managing 20+ engineers
• 5+ years of experience developing database-backed applications using Postgres or equivalent Enterprise class database
• 5+ years of experience developing platform software for distributed web scale applications.
• 5+ years of experience with REST API development.
• Solid understanding of Internet protocol concepts (IP, TCP, SSL / TLS, HTTP, DNS).
• Education: Masters in Computer Science or a related field.
Desired Qualifications
• Desire to work in and lead a fast-paced, dynamic, highly effective team.
• Knowledge of standard and repeatable software engineering practices.
• Knowledge of Distributed Systems, Databases, Computer & Network Security, Big Data Systems.
• Strong communication and organizational skills.
• Passion to understand, learn, and evaluate new technologies.