Jobs at Akamai Technologies

Own the technical sales lifecycle for API, agent, and AI security solutions. Lead customer discovery, solution design, demonstrations, workshops, and technical engagements. Advise customers on security strategies, threat mitigation, posture management, and cloud-native architectures. Serve as a cybersecurity subject matter expert, translate complex concepts for technical and executive audiences, gather requirements, and collaborate with sales, product, engineering, and partners to deliver successful security transformations.

Lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution for device segmentation security products. Drive product-market fit through customer engagement, capability validation, proof-of-concept conversion, and enterprise sales support. Define IoT/OT visibility and Zero Trust segmentation capabilities, collaborate with engineering, architecture, UX, and QA, shape go-to-market positioning, and manage ecosystem integrations across networking and security platforms.

Analyzes large-scale telemetry and datasets to identify content delivery performance and reliability issues. Builds software tools to automate analytical workflows and enable autonomous diagnosis. Applies statistical analysis, machine learning, networking, and distributed-systems expertise to develop targeted platform improvements. Defines and mines internal data feeds, establishes performance indicators, and partners with Engineering, Operations, and Product teams to guide feature and process adoption.

Designs, implements, automates, and supports Akamai’s global network infrastructure. Responsibilities include scalable BGP routing, data center fabrics, DDoS detection and mitigation, network configuration automation, hardware integration, complex troubleshooting, cross-functional requirements definition, and technical documentation.

Lead complex, cross-functional IT programs from planning through sustainment. Responsibilities include defining program scope and plans, managing dependencies, risks, stakeholders, implementation providers, and executive communications. The role requires technical understanding, experience delivering SaaS or infrastructure implementations, and at least five years of relevant experience.

The Senior Recruiter will develop and execute recruiting strategies, build diverse talent pipelines, advise hiring leaders, and improve candidate and stakeholder experiences. Responsibilities include workforce planning, full-cycle recruiting, process and best-practice development, recruiting metrics, reporting, and partnership with HR leadership. The role requires corporate recruiting experience, familiarity with ATS platforms and OFCCP guidelines, knowledge of labor markets and hiring trends, and strong stakeholder partnership skills.

Lead full-cycle recruiting for a technology company by partnering with business leaders, developing diverse talent strategies, advising stakeholders throughout the hiring process, improving candidate and hiring experiences, and reporting recruiting metrics to HR leadership.

Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of scalable, low-latency backend services and REST APIs using Python and Flask. Design database schemas, optimize queries, implement authentication and observability, and build fault-tolerant distributed systems. Lead technical reviews, establish API and engineering standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams on architecture and integrations. The role requires expertise in backend development, RESTful architecture, security, cloud platforms, CI/CD, containerization, testing, and emerging AI technologies.

Supports sales pipeline growth by acquiring and researching contacts, preparing account reports, qualifying leads, engaging prospects through phone and chat, and completing training on Akamai products. The role partners with Sales and Marketing to generate demand and identify customer opportunities while developing skills for advancement as a Sales Development Representative.

Leads strategic, cross-organizational IT transformation programs from definition and planning through execution and sustainment. Develops integrated plans, manages scope, dependencies, risks, and external implementation providers, and communicates status to executive sponsors and governance boards. The role drives stakeholder alignment, supports enterprise applications, works independently through ambiguity, and improves PMO processes through best practices.

Lead the evolution of Akamai’s global cloud infrastructure and platform services. Design architectures for large-scale distributed systems, guide cloud platform roadmaps, align engineering teams around long-term technical strategies, evaluate technology choices, and modernize systems for enterprise-grade scalability, reliability, security, availability, and observability. The role requires hands-on design leadership and collaboration with internal stakeholders and external partners.

Develop cloud security platform and product services using Golang and Python in a high-traffic environment. Own features from requirements through release, build modular infrastructure, integrate components, solve technical challenges, and collaborate with cloud, product, data science, and DevOps teams. The role also involves designing threat detection solutions, working with distributed systems and NoSQL databases, mentoring junior engineers, and promoting engineering best practices.

Build and operate model validation, quantization, and safety systems for production ML. Develop pipelines for security scanning, optimization (quantization/pruning), routing, prompt management, and evaluation frameworks measuring accuracy, performance, and safety across model lifecycles.

Lead end-to-end planning and execution of large-scale AI platform programs, including technical roadmaps, software development lifecycles, releases, risks, dependencies, schedules, metrics, and executive communications. Mentor team members and coordinate cross-functional stakeholders while guiding complex AI infrastructure initiatives from concept through market delivery.

Lead end-to-end UX design for Akamai Cloud, setting experience vision and design direction for major products and workflows. Simplify complex customer journeys across consoles, APIs, CLIs, and documentation while delivering implementation-ready designs. Partner with product and engineering leaders, conduct generative and evaluative research, analyze product data, and incorporate customer insights. The role requires strong interaction, visual design, prototyping, strategic leadership, and experience designing enterprise software for technical users.

Oversee global data center network infrastructure operations, including deploying, repairing, installing, and decommissioning servers, storage systems, routers, switches, cabling, firmware, and software. Monitor and troubleshoot hardware, coordinate deployments and rack designs, manage inventory and shipping, support data center migrations and upgrades, and collaborate with Network Operations Centers and on-site technicians.

Designs infrastructure control-plane capabilities for capacity allocation, resource scheduling, and platform placement. Develops production-grade Python components and data pipelines, analyzes operational datasets with Python and SQL, and applies quantitative modeling, algorithms, optimization, and simulation to infrastructure systems. Provides strategic architectural guidance to engineering leaders and executives while collaborating with software engineers and domain experts to deliver production capabilities.

Leads business analysis for enterprise application enhancements and integrations supporting contracting, billing, and receivables. Gathers and translates stakeholder needs into functional requirements, user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria, and process flows. Partners with developers and QA throughout the SDLC, analyzes application integrations and data flows, supports testing and defect resolution, and drives requirements and dependencies through implementation and post-deployment support.

Leads business analysis for complex enterprise system initiatives across the SDLC. Manages requirements validation, solution delivery, system integrations, data management, workshops, process improvements, documentation, UAT coordination, and cross-functional collaboration. Performs current-state and future-state gap analyses, optimizes business system configurations, and uses generative AI to accelerate requirements documentation, user stories, and test scenarios.

Owns the reliability of cloud private networking, firewall, and IPSec Gateway services across a global fleet. Responsibilities include phased deployments, Linux networking operations, packet-level troubleshooting, automation with Python or Shell, configuration management, monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana, alerting, runbook maintenance, incident response, SLO improvement, and technical readiness reviews.