Jobs at Akamai Technologies

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will integrate DPU hardware, execute validation plans, handle automation scripts, and collaborate with teams on networking features and testing.

As a Penetration Tester, you will assess vulnerabilities in Akamai's products, perform penetration tests, provide remediation guidance, and collaborate with security teams.

The Senior Solutions Engineer collaborates with customers to design and sell innovative internet solutions, manage technical queries, and support internal teams, focusing on cloud and security technologies.

The Senior SRE will be responsible for enhancing reliability, automation, and performance of Akamai's AI platforms and collaborating with engineering teams.

The Major Account Executive is responsible for managing enterprise accounts, fostering relationships, meeting revenue quotas, and generating demand for products.

As a Senior Partner Solutions Engineer, you will design technical solutions, work with sales and technical teams, and enable partners to succeed.

As a Software Engineer II, you will build and maintain platform services for AI inference infrastructure, focusing on APIs, security, and operational readiness.

The Cloud Support Engineer resolves technical issues, collaborates with customers and teams, and ensures customer success on the Akamai platform, requiring proficiency in web applications and internet protocols.

As a Principal Big Data Engineer, you will design scalable solutions, develop data pipelines, create features, and collaborate with various teams to enhance Akamai's data platform.

Develop and maintain infrastructure automation, configuration management, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD pipelines, secrets and certificate management, and PKI solutions. Automate operational tasks, troubleshoot complex Linux and containerized infrastructure issues, improve reliability and security, and collaborate with engineering teams to resolve incidents and maintain service-level objectives.

Leads complex technical programs and software development initiatives from concept through market launch. Coordinates product, engineering, and business teams, manages schedules, investments, risks, deliverables, and cross-functional execution. Communicates status and changes to senior leadership, improves program performance, navigates ambiguity, supports transformation, and provides technical mentorship. The role requires Agile experience and the ability to influence teams without direct authority.

Manages and improves distributor and reseller partner programs, leading initiatives from planning through execution. The role develops partner enablement strategies, collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders, defines program metrics, analyzes partner performance, improves operational processes, and resolves partner issues. Success requires program or channel operations experience, strong stakeholder management, analytical skills, international collaboration, and familiarity with Salesforce, partner portals, and KPI dashboards.

Designs, builds, and operates scalable backend services and infrastructure for Akamai’s security platform. Responsibilities include owning production systems, improving availability and performance, building ETL and data-processing pipelines, optimizing PostgreSQL and ClickHouse systems, operating Kafka-based event processing, managing AWS and GCP infrastructure with Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code, and enhancing CI/CD, monitoring, automation, and observability.

Design and build AI usage-control and enterprise security capabilities across SaaS, desktop applications, AI agents, and endpoints. Own highly available cloud-native microservices, develop OS-level enforcement components, create AI-powered security tools, and contribute across backend services and React-based consoles. Collaborate with DevOps, product, and security teams to deliver secure, scalable software frequently.

Leads technical pre-sales activities for public sector and regulated-industry customers. Creates sales opportunities, manages technical proposals, designs solutions, delivers demonstrations, and leads proofs of concept. Partners with engineering and business teams to align Akamai technologies with customer requirements, provides technical expertise, tracks account activity, and presents solutions to diverse audiences.

Designs scalable, secure, resilient cloud and data architectures for high-volume services. Evaluates cloud technologies, develops reusable Terraform infrastructure and automation, and serves as a database architecture expert for PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Redis, and Valkey. Builds prototypes and reference implementations, designs highly available distributed database systems, coaches engineers, partners with product and SRE teams, and converts validated concepts into production-ready architecture patterns.

Develop machine learning models, detection rules, and data-driven solutions for web security products. Analyze massive customer datasets, improve detection accuracy, enhance production data processes, troubleshoot distributed systems, and collaborate with engineering and data science teams to address customer challenges and guide product improvements.

Develop and maintain control-plane services for Akamai’s AI inference cloud, including APIs, configuration management, platform workflows, and customer-facing resource management features. Write tested and documented code, participate in reviews, collaborate with engineering and product teams, and support platform reliability through monitoring, debugging, and operational assistance.

Provide B2B technical support to enterprise and SMB customers through chat and email. Diagnose complex Akamai network and internet-related issues, collaborate internally on resolution, develop proactive performance improvements, prioritize urgent cases, and guide customers on CDN usage and training. The role also emphasizes process optimization, service metrics, clear technical communication, and customer-centric support across global environments.

Owns VM and fleet test strategy, hypervisor validation, performance quality gates, and systems-level testing for an IaaS platform. Designs reproducible bare-metal-like environments, develops automated benchmarks and regression gates, validates SLOs and deployment safety, and builds test harnesses in Go, Python, and Perl. The role requires deep expertise in KVM/QEMU/libvirt, Linux internals, x86 and ARM architectures, performance analysis, statistical testing, and CI/CD tooling.