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We design and operate customer-facing platforms enabling customers to configure and control their delivery, security, and cloud assets. This team owns the IAM tool sets for Akamai's customers using the Akamai Control Center website and the Cloud Manager website. We ensure customers have what they need to configure users for quality, safety, and performance.\nPartner with the best\nAs the Director of Engineering, you will be in a high-impact, global leadership role responsible for steering the engineering strategy, architecture, and execution of Akamai's IAM platform. This leader will scale a high-performing, globally distributed engineering organization to deliver massive-scale, feature-rich, and performant IAM systems.\nAs the Director of Engineering, you will be responsible for:\nManaging mentoring, and growing a large, multidisciplinary global team of managers, software engineers, and architects\nDriving the technical roadmap for the IAM platform, ensuring the platform is highly scalable, resilient, and optimized for global, low-latency AuthZ\nOverseeing the end-to-end software development lifecycle to ensure all code meets our high standards for quality, safety and performance.\nPartnering closely with other teams to translate business vision into concrete technical milestones,\nDo what you love\nTo be successful in this role you will:\nHave 15 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or its equivalent\nHave extensive experience leading large, distributed software engineering teams with a track record of delivering innovative software products\nPossess a deep understanding of the IAM ecosystem\nHave exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with a proven track record of aligning remote, global teams\nAbout us\nAt Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.\nWhether 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.\nOur focus is simple:\nCloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.\nSecurity: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.\nContent Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.\nAI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.\nAt Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.\nBenefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.\nFlexBase adapts to your job's needs\nAkamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.\nWe trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.\nConnect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like! \nCompensation\nAkamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $203,600 - $366,400/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. 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