Director Engineering – WebAssembly
Akamai Technologies
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $183,600 - $381,400 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Responsible for the end-to-end engineering lifecycle
- Support the technical strategy for next-generation product infrastructure
- Own the platform's end-to-end SLOs
- Develop and execute observability strategy and roadmap
- Oversee contributions to/investments in the open-source Wasm-based runtime
- Drive the implementation of secure, automated CI/CD pipelines and IaC templates
Requirements
- 12 years of relevant experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or its equivalent
- Proven track record of delivering high-quality, resilient, supportable software
- Experience building and scaling high-throughput distributed systems
- Familiarity with serverless computing paradigms
- Understanding of SRE principles (error budgets, SLIs/SLOs, automated incident management)
- Proficiency in IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation) and modern CI/CD frameworks (GitHub Actions, CloudBees, Jenkins)
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401K savings plan
- Company holidays
- Paid time off (in the form of PTO)
- Sick time
- Family friendly benefits including parental leave
- Employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
end-to-end engineering lifecycleobservability strategyCI/CD pipelinesIaCTerraformCloudFormationGitHub ActionsCloudBeesJenkinshigh-throughput distributed systems
Soft Skills
technical strategyownershipimplementationcontributionsinvestment oversight
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in Engineering