Senior Software Engineer Lead

Are you excited to work on innovative enterprise security products?

Are you passionate about securing user activity across browsers, desktop applications, and AI tools?

Partner with the best

LayerX (now Akamai) turns any browser or desktop into a secure workspace. We protect your apps, data, and devices from web risks and AI leaks in real time, with zero impact on user experience.

Akamai Workforce Protector team!

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineering Team Lead to build and lead a high-performing software engineering team from scratch. You will own the roadmap and vision, ensuring full alignment with business goals.

In this role you will be:

• Building and leading a high-performing software engineering team from scratch.
• Owning the roadmap and vision, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers, fostering technical excellence and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Taking full ownership of team execution, ensuring high-quality, secure, and scalable software.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including Product Management, Security, and DevOps, to deliver impactful solutions.
• Contributing to architectural and strategic decisions, balancing innovation with reliability.
• Empowering engineers with autonomy, guiding them toward technical and professional growth.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• 2+ years' experience as a Software Engineering Team Leader at a SaaS company.
• 5+ years of experience as a Senior Software Engineer in a SaaS company.
• Have experience leading teams in a cloud-native environment, with a focus on microservices, distributed systems, and high-scale applications.
• Have a technical background in AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and modern development frameworks.
• Demonstrate mentorship and leadership skills, with a track record of growing engineers into contributors and leaders.
• Be able to balance technical depth with high-level strategic thinking, driving both execution and vision.
• Be a problem-solver with decision-making ability in a high-impact environment.

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
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.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: 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.
At 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.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai'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.
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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