Jobs at Akamai

Become a trusted advisor

As a Senior Security Consultant, you will be responsible for:

• Being the central point of contact for customers and leading the integrated account team delivering customer success
• Partnering with the business to review and ensure integration efficiency, high quality service and keep customers engaged
• Identifying service enhancements and potential problems to ensure continuous improvements to quality of customer service delivery
• Communicating with internal, external customers and partners to share information and deliverables

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or related field or its equivalent
• Demonstrate experience in a customer-facing role within the information technology industry
• Show understanding of working with network technologies, web security or media related technologies, methodologies and/or architectures
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, Security+, CySA+, GPEN, CEH, etc are helpful
• Have a natural ability to engage, influence and build trusted relationships with customers in difficult environments
• Demonstrate experience in delivering technical projects with an ability to manage multiple priorities
• Be a good tam player, able to collaborate, prioritize, and solve problems in a fast changing environment

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavours

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

Partner with the best

As a Principal Solutions Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Owning the technical sales lifecycle, including discovery, solution design, and delivery of compelling product demonstrations.
• Translating complex technical concepts into practical/impactful use cases for diverse audiences from technical engineers to C-level executives.
• Serving as the go-to expert on API security for customers, internal teams, and partners.
• Educating sales teams and other stakeholders on API security trends, threats, and best practices.
• Acting as the technical point of contact for customers during their pre-sales journey, ensuring success and satisfaction.
• Gathering customer requirements and work closely with product and engineering teams to align solutions to customer needs.
• Presenting Akamai's API security vision and best practices at industry conferences, webinars, and customer workshops.
• Partnering with sales, product management, and engineering teams to drive alignment and continuously improve the customer experience.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 12yrs of relevant experience and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, or it's equivalent.
• Have excellent knowledge of APIs, API gateways, web application firewalls (WAF), and API security practices.
• Have proven experience in a technical pre-sales, solution architecture, or related role in cybersecurity or API-related fields.
• Display proficiency in internet technologies, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, and RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and more.
• Possess hands-on experience with scripting languages such as Python, JavaScript, or Bash.
• Display familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and cloud-native architectures.
• Have experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications.
• Possess exceptional presentation skills and ability to explain complex concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

If no date is displayed, applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis until the job is filled.

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is hiring for the following role in Cambridge, MA (multiple openings): Site Reliability Engineer. Senior. Perform site reliability software engineering duties in furtherance of ensuring application and network performance, reliability and security for users of our platforms; deploy and operate scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems; analyze and improve the security, stability, speed, and capacity of our network; automate new cloud service deployments; monitor and troubleshoot cloud services to ensure SLA is met and adequate capacity is available; analyze logs and events from the cloud service and providing recommendations to ensure smooth service operation; work within large-scale cloud-based infrastructure; quickly identify and resolve infrastructure issues. Telecommuting permitted from anywhere within the United States.[AG0079]

Required Qualification:

Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, Electronical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Networking, or Telecommunications Engineering, plus six (6) months of experience in the job offered or closely related engineering role. Must have: 6 months of experience with the following: Azure cloud development; Bash; Python; Perl; Dynatrace; and Confluent Kafka.

Drive innovation in Threat Intelligence

As a Software Engineer Senior, you will be responsible for:

• Building and tuning real-time anomaly detection systems using behavioral models, heuristics, and ML
• Designing and maintaining scalable pipelines to process and analyze high-volume network telemetry
• Developing high-performance ClickHouse queries and data models to support threat detection and response workflows
• Contributing services that serve as the backbone of our detection systems
• Collaborating with Security Analysts and Incident Response teams to operationalize threat intelligence
• Experimenting with new models and approaches, performing validation and tuning on live data

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• 5+ years of relevant experience and a bachelor's degree in a related field
• Be proficient in Python and Golang for backend engineering, with experience writing scalable and reliable microservices
• Have hands-on experience with ClickHouse or other columnar data stores in real-time analytics use cases
• Demonstrate knowledge of anomaly detection, time-series modeling, and applying machine learning to security problems
• Have experience building containerized microservices and managing them with Kubernetes in production/on-prem environments
• Be familiar with network protocols, common attack patterns, and threat hunting practices
• Possess a deep understanding of distributed systems, observability, and performance tuning

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

If no date is displayed, applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis until the job is filled.

Required Qualification:

Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, or Telecommunications Engineering, plus two (2) years of experience in job offered or closely related engineering roles. Must have: Two (2) years of experience with the following: Java; secure protocols such as TLS or IKE; OpenSSL; internet protocols such as TCP/IP or HTTP; multi-threaded server
applications; and scripting languages such as Python and Perl.

Alternately, employer will accept Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, or Telecommunications Engineering, plus five (5) years of experience in job offered or closely related engineering roles. Must have: Two (2) years of experience with the following: Java; secure protocols such as TLS or IKE; OpenSSL; internet protocols such as TCP/IP or HTTP; multi-threaded server applications; and scripting languages such as Python and Perl.

Partner with the best

You'll maximize customers' value in Akamai with program management, strategic thinking, technical acumen, pre-sales, and thought leadership. You will move our customers' key initiatives from concept to implementation, solving problems and delivering exceptional satisfaction.

As an Engagement Manager II, you will be responsible for:

• Owning program management and being the trusted advisor that helps customers get the most value out of solutions.
• Architecting and managing the web performance, cloud computing and security solutions.
• Defining an account strategy, establishing key relationships, and building and maintaining a project pipeline.
• Leading a cross functional team and developing a culture of excellence to empower and encourage team synergy.
• Partnering with sales and pre-sales to help expand the use of services and solutions.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 5 years of experience and a Bachelor's in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, or its equivalent
• Demonstrate experience in a customer-facing role and an understanding of the consulting process to ensure customer success
• Have experience managing and delivering large technical customer projects successfully
• Be knowledgeable on Devops, web development, web performance such as HTTPS, DNS
• Have familiarity with security technologies, with basic knowledge of methods used to protect data, applications, and infrastructure
• Be familiar with compute technologies, with basic knowledge and skills to design, implement, and manage cloud-based systems
• Have excellent communication and presentation skills and articulate technical information in an easy to understand manner
• Be a team player with an ability to work independently and as part of a remote team

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

If no date is displayed, applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis until the job is filled.

Trusted Advisor Ecosystem Focus

As a Partner Account Executive Senior, you will be responsible for:

• Engaging our Trusted Advisor ecosystem through relationships, building interest and position solutions to drive new pipeline development.
• Finding and recruiting relevant partners to support the local sales teams.
• Defining partner-specific plans to grow the North American business.
• Acquiring new business by evangelizing Akamai's technology to recently acquired and prospective Partners.
• Acting as the trusted point of contact to stakeholders and partners, ensuring mutual success.
• Collaborating with all cross-functional teams such as marketing, finance, enablement, legal and pre-sales.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 8 years of experience and a Bachelor's degree and have worked with Avant and Telarus
• Have solid expertise with channels sales management and/or business development in the Cloud Security space.
• Enjoy collaborating with internal cross-functional teams to problem solve and build strategies to enable business growth.
• Have a ability to build relationships at CXO level.
• Be a natural communicator with an ability to build trusted relationships with partners to ensure success.
• Be able to analyze data, provide actionable solutions and thought leadership to internal and external stakeholders.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

If no date is displayed, applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis until the job is filled.