Senior Engineering Manager - Akamai Inference Cloud - Remote/Poland
Join Akamai Technologies as a Senior Engineering Manager in the Akamai Inference Cloud Team, leading a world‑class team at the intersection of AI and edge computing.
Location: Remote (Poland) – candidates located in Cracow, Małopolskie, Poland may apply.
Job Description
Do you thrive on building the future of AI infrastructure? Are you ready to lead a world‑class team at the intersection of AI and edge computing? Partner with the best – as a Senior Engineering Manager you will oversee and build a global AI inference platform, offering OpenAI‑compatible endpoints and managing workloads across regions, ensuring availability, performance, scalability and security while meeting regulatory compliance.
Responsibilities
- Build and scale a world‑class engineering team from the ground up, recruiting top talent in AI infrastructure and ML operations.
- Lead the technical strategy for a global AI inference platform that is performant, compliant, economical, and explainable.
- Ensure availability, performance, scalability, and security within the Akamai Inference Cloud environment.
- Design global traffic orchestration for AI workloads and establish platform standards and blueprints for production‑grade AI applications.
- Evaluate AI tools thoroughly while ensuring platform adherence to FedRAMP, GDPR, SOX, and various other regulatory standards.
Qualifications
- Relevant experience with a track record of building and scaling high‑performing engineering teams that shipped successful AI/ML products.
- Hands‑on experience with AI inference optimization, model serving, and LLM deployment at scale, with deep knowledge of inference frameworks (TensorRT, vLLM, TorchServe, Triton).
- Experience implementing containerization strategies for AI workloads, optimizing hardware‑specific processes, and expertise in cloud‑native technologies such as Kubernetes and distributed systems globally.
- Expertise in building highly available, low‑latency platforms with strict SLOs and cost‑optimization strategies for compute‑intensive AI workloads.
- Experience with AI application platforms (RAG, agents, fine‑tuning).
- Knowledge of AI safety and explainability frameworks.
- Familiarity with GPU infrastructure and hardware acceleration.
Benefits
- Your health
- Your finances
- Your family
- Your time at work
- Your time pursuing other endeavors
Company
Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver and secure their digital experiences, helping billions of people live, work, and play every day.
Work flexibly
FlexBase, Akamai’s Global Flexible Working Program, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from home, office, or a mix, supporting talent worldwide. We welcome flexible working arrangements and will discuss options for this role.
Join us
If you want to make a real difference in a global company with exciting services and clients, apply now and grow with a team that energizes and inspires!
Senior level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Technology, Information and Internet
