Engineering Management
The Engineering Management group at Akamai is responsible for leadership, planning, and processes related to the mission-critical technologies used on our network of 65,000 servers located around the world. This group is also a vital part of cross-functional efforts, coordinating closely with other departments such as Product Management, Networks & Operations, Services & Support, and Finance.
Custom Engineering
The Custom Engineering group is responsible for designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining projects meant to fulfill customer requests that fall outside of Akamai's standard product offerings. Projects can range from development of small, custom applications to large, multi year deployments; these projects can also include working with customers from the public or private sector. Due to the breadth of Akamai products incorporated into custom projects, developers in this group work with all the various technologies developed throughout the Engineering organization
Cloud Platforms
The Cloud Platforms Engineering team has responsibility for the technologies that power our Site and Acceleration Products, including Dynamic Site Accelerator, IP and Web Application Accelerator, Edge Computing, Mobile Optimization, and Edge Tokenization for Payment Services. These systems improve the speed and reliability of web sites and applications running over various networking environments. By leveraging Akamai's global Internet deployment of 70,000+ servers, we can uniquely solve technology problems and exceed fundamental limitations of networking.
Advertising Decision Solutions
Akamai's Advertising Decision Solutions (ADS) division runs an innovative performance-based behavioral targeting ad network (acerno) that enables large online display advertisers to run extremely efficient marketing campaigns that exceed aggressive ROI goals with astounding scale and precision. The ADS team works with the largest Publishers, Advertisers, and Ad Networks on the internet today.
Industry Marketing
Industry Marketing owns the "where to go and what to say" at Akamai and is influential in guiding the salesforce and helping them succeed in their mission of market penetration. We do this through the creation of industry-specific packages, defining business value for prospective customers and then training sales to successfully sell to those prospects. The success of an Industry Marketing Director is measured in leads generated, deals closed, revenue booked and sales executives satisfied.
Network Systems Engineering
The Network Systems Engineering group develops the distributed systems technology that underpins our global network of 65,000 servers. Included within this group are several teams - Mapping, Network Management Systems, and System Communications. Mapping develops Akamai's load-balancing and DNS (name service) technologies, which are used daily to direct over a hundred million Internet users to ideally located EdgeServers for the requested content. Network Management Systems develops the fault management, reporting, configuration management and security systems that manage and monitor Akamai's globally distributed network. System Communications works on the infrastructural components that handle data flow around the network, as well as the data collection systems that process billions of records every day, providing valuable reporting to our customers.
Enterprise Systems Engineering
The Enterprise Systems Engineering group is responsible for all the systems used to interact with and control the enterprise, both for internal users within Akamai and for external customers. Business Applications teams within this group develop and maintain back office systems used for customer relationship management, invoicing and billing, and enterprise resource planning. These teams work on a mixture of custom-built and third-party applications. The Development Tools team is charged with making software development, project planning, status reporting, business processes, and collaboration more efficient at Akamai. The EdgeControl Engineering team develops and maintains EdgeControl, which is Akamai's Portal. EdgeControl provides our customers, channel partners, and internal staff visibility and control over Akamai's network of 60,000+ servers located around the world.
Analytics Engineering
The Analytics Engineering group builds technology that provides our customers valuable insights into their businesses and their end users. This group builds innovative performance analytics services that measure, analyze, and report on the availability and performance of web sites, streaming media, and web-based applications. This group also creates highly novel business analytics services that analyze, and report key metrics on how users access and experience streaming media and web content.
Media and CDN Engineering
The Media and CDN Engineering group is responsible for all of the software used to deliver, download, store, and manage digital media and other web content via the Akamai network. This includes developing and maintaining Akamai's core caching and web server technology that runs on our network of 60,000+ servers located around the world, as well as the Live and On-Demand Streaming products that are used to deliver media content for major events. On the back end, developers work on Akamai's NetStorage system that stores massive amounts of customer content. All of this technology is built upon our customized operating system and kernel, also maintained by this group. The members of this group also work on some of our internally developed monitoring software that constantly provides server health and status information to our centralized monitoring infrastructure.
Enterprise Solution Sales
The Enterprise Solutions Sales organization is responsible for growing customer count and revenues for Akamai across North America in the areas of Technology (hardware, software and connected device companies), Commerce (retail, hotel and travel related companies) and Enterprise (larger Fortune 2000-type companies, with specific interest in finance, pharma/medical and business services). This team manages all sales cycles for these industries and sells every Akamai service available.
System Quality Assurance
The System Quality Assurance group is responsible for extensive testing across all the technologies developed in Engineering. This group is knowledgeable about all these technologies and focuses on real-world, end-to-end testing to ensure all of Akamai's systems integrate well. In addition, this group works on automated testing infrastructure and systematic test case tracking to increase efficiency within the quality assurance process.
