Remote Engineering Manager

Are you a hands-on people-focused engineering leader who enjoys leading high-performing teams to solve complex problems? Are you passionate about cutting edge technology?

The Akamai Platform IAM team is part of Akamai's Cloud Technology Group. We design and operate customer-facing platforms enabling customers to configure and control their cloud assets. This team owns the IAM tool sets for Akamai's customers using the Cloud Manager website. We ensure customers have what they need to configure users for quality, safety, and performance.

You will join a global team and lead a team of engineers responsible for delivering high-quality IAM features and tools. You'll balance technical oversight with people management, coaching engineers, clarifying requirements, driving execution, and ensuring alignment with product and SRE partners. While you will bring engineering expertise, your role will focus on leadership, mentorship, and technical direction over hands-on development.

As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for:

Providing technical guidance and setting best practices for back-end architecture and development

Providing technical guidance and setting best practices for back-end architecture and development

Partnering with product management, QA, SRE, Senior Leadership, and other engineering teams to deliver cohesive user experiences

Having oversight of delivery across the full project lifecycle: organizing, planning, development, testing, and release

Driving consistency through tooling and engineering standards

Supporting hiring, onboarding, performance feedback, and career growth for team members

Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field

Demonstrate solid knowledge of back-end technologies including Python

Demonstrate solid understanding and experience with large, low-latency, and highly-available distributed systems

Possess a clear understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Agile planning

Have prior leadership experience and excellent communication skills and a passion for building inclusive, high-performing engineering teams

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.

Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.

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.

we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. 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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The base salary for this position ranges from 129,400 - 232,800 CAD/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications. 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, RRSP, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Locations 343 Preston Street, Suite 420, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 1N4, CA (Remote)

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