
Senior Software Engineer – Lead
Akamai Technologies
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $121,400 - $218,600 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Providing site technical leadership, coordinating across engineering, architecture, and program teams to influence design decisions, trade-offs, and delivery priorities.
- Defining and driving cloud-native and edge architecture strategy using modern containerization, orchestration, and scalable distributed system patterns.
- Leading Agile delivery across a product portfolio, guiding planning, execution, sustainment, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Establishing engineering best practices for security, reliability, DevSecOps, and lifecycle management across build, test, deploy, and operations.
- Serving as trusted technical advisor to customers enabling secure deployment and integration within regulated government environments.
- Resolving escalations, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring mission requirements translate into secure, scalable technical outcomes.
Requirements
- 5 years of progressive experience in software engineering, systems engineering, or cloud architecture with increasing leadership responsibility.
- Active Secret clearance.
- DoD 8140-compliant certification such as Security+ or CISSP.
- Expertise in Zero Trust architectures including OAuth2, SAML, OIDC, just-in-time access, and identity-aware integrations.
- Deep understanding of Agile and DevSecOps lifecycles across build, test, deploy, sustainment, and continuous delivery practices.
- Travel for periodic 23 week on-site integrations while coordinating across customer stakeholders, internal teams, and integrators.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401K savings plan
- Company holidays
- Vacation (in the form of PTO)
- Sick time
- Family friendly benefits including parental leave
- Employee assistance program including focus on mental and financial wellness.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud-native architectureedge architecturecontainerizationorchestrationdistributed systemsAgile deliveryDevSecOpssecurity best practiceslifecycle managementZero Trust architecture
Soft Skills
technical leadershipstakeholder alignmentcustomer advisoryproblem resolutioninfluence design decisionscontinuous improvementplanning executioncommunication
Certifications
Active Secret clearanceSecurity+CISSP