Jobs at Akamai Technologies

Manage server procurement and supply chain projects supporting Akamai’s global infrastructure. Responsibilities include vendor relationship management, scorecards, cross-functional planning, supply issue resolution, inventory risk mitigation, deployment sequencing, warehouse transfers, and equipment substitutions. The role requires forecasting and procurement expertise, analytical and financial judgment, project and vendor management, and strong negotiation and intercultural communication skills.

Leads Akamai’s global Platform IAM engineering organization, overseeing managers, software engineers, and architects. Sets technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for scalable, resilient, low-latency identity and authorization systems. Ensures software development quality, safety, and performance while partnering across teams to convert business goals into technical milestones. Coaches and grows a distributed engineering organization and drives delivery of customer-facing IAM platforms.

Analyzes business problems, KPIs, forecasts, capacity, and quantitative models to support product strategy and operational excellence. Improves processes, standardizes global metrics, develops data-driven insights, and facilitates stakeholder business reviews for better decision-making and productivity.

Leads technical pre-sales strategy for web performance products, designing cloud and edge solutions for complex customer requirements. Acts as a technical escalation point, supports proofs of concept, provides web performance subject-matter expertise, and influences product roadmaps. Builds customer relationships through consultative selling and presents technical and business concepts to diverse audiences.

Develop scalable, automated software that improves product and platform security. Build and maintain full-stack applications, including front-end interfaces, application frameworks, data management, analytics, and visualization tools. Provide performance insights to customers and internal teams, research relevant technologies, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver effective solutions.

Translates compliance guidelines into business requirements, technical specifications, and security frameworks. Collaborates with internal teams, assessors, sales, project managers, support, engineering, and customers to understand web-scale systems, meet security obligations, integrate solutions, mitigate risks, and support go-live activities. Provides guidance on security controls, DDoS mitigation, network monitoring, incident escalation, threat detection, and security documentation.

Designs and implements scalable integrations between Noname Security and Akamai infrastructure. Leads architectural changes across R&D teams, improves reliability and deployment efficiency, oversees critical integration components, guides design patterns and platform strategy, and establishes engineering best practices. Requires expertise in cloud infrastructure security, distributed backend systems, database optimization, event-driven architecture, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Python, Flask, TypeScript, and REST APIs.

Develops internal marketing communications and employee recognition programs, analyzes communications metrics, coordinates global information sharing and quarterly all-hands meetings, creates employee news stories, and manages intranet and newsletter content. The role requires expertise in video editing, project management tools, presentations, data visualization, surveys, change communications, and ERP software.

Designs, develops, tests, implements, maintains, and supports custom software applications across internet security, content delivery, APIs, machine learning, and cloud computing. The role improves platform functionality, develops new capabilities, automates product operations, contributes to architecture and software design, and expands automated unit, functional, integration, and end-to-end testing.

Deploy and operate scalable, highly available cloud systems; improve network security, stability, speed, and capacity; automate cloud deployments; monitor services and capacity; analyze logs and events; troubleshoot infrastructure issues; maintain SLAs; perform root cause analysis and implement security fixes using CI/CD, IaC, Ansible, Terraform, Salt, Python, Bash, GitLab, and Linux.

Develop and deploy automated system tests for distributed software systems. Build test beds, unit tests, automation tools, and infrastructure; collaborate with developers and QA teams; create test plans and ensure coverage; review system requirements and test cases; and improve testing methodologies and efficiency using software development and coding.

Designs and leads large-scale software subsystems, architecture, coding standards, code reviews, debugging tools, performance optimization, refactoring, and QA automation. Guides business and technical solution definition, evaluates production readiness using objective metrics, and develops web content management, workflow automation, integrations, and database solutions. The role is telecommuting eligible throughout the United States.

Designs, implements, and maintains Linux systems across physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures. Responsibilities include applying software and security updates, improving operational processes, collaborating with hardware vendors and cross-functional teams, supporting L1 and L2 operations, automating infrastructure with Ansible, and managing virtualization and cloud technologies. The role also involves stakeholder management, customer satisfaction, troubleshooting, and communicating technical concepts to varied audiences.

Lead development and operation of a scalable Kubernetes-based cloud-native platform. Shape the engineering roadmap, deliver enterprise platform capabilities, establish best practices, mentor engineers, and collaborate across Agile teams. Build highly available and fault-tolerant production services using Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies, while applying expertise in Go, Python or Bash, networking, Linux, and CI/CD practices.

Provide technical support to customers using the Akamai platform by diagnosing and resolving web application, cloud, media, security, and networking issues. Collaborate with customers and internal teams, manage incidents and escalations through resolution, proactively mitigate risks, and contribute to global support best practices. Requires professional communication in Spanish and English.

Design, build, and operate scalable infrastructure and CI/CD/IaC systems. Implement observability (monitoring, logging, alerting), automate reliability improvements, mentor engineers, collaborate on incident response, and participate in on-call rotations to maintain Akamai Cloud services.

Perform security-focused design reviews across applications, systems, networks, cloud, CDN, and security products. Partner with development and infrastructure teams to remediate vulnerabilities, guide secure design decisions, advise on security practices, support incident response, and ensure security and compliance requirements. Apply threat modeling, current vulnerability knowledge, and responsible AI practices while communicating effectively with global technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Design and implement platform security solutions across deployments, databases, and control planes. Deliver secure, scalable code, support full product lifecycle, collaborate with Product/Architecture/DevOps/InfoSec, and resolve complex platform and product security challenges.

Lead site reliability engineering for Akamai’s compute infrastructure and services. Develop automation, define reliability requirements and standards, establish SLOs and KPIs, troubleshoot complex distributed-system and hardware issues, manage incidents and postmortems, and participate in on-call rotations. Coordinate engineering teams, support strategic initiatives, mentor engineers, and guide restoration of service-impacting issues.

Lead technical architecture and thought leadership for AI and enterprise workloads on Akamai’s cloud, edge, delivery, and security platforms. Advise customers and stakeholders, identify AI adoption opportunities, design scalable solutions, guide framework and technology selection, and collaborate with engineers, data scientists, Product Management, and R&D. Shape product roadmaps, provide technical guidance, analyze requirements and data, and develop strategic customer relationships.