Security Researcher

Are you excited about detecting and mitigating the latest cyber & fraud attacks?

Do you love researching and reverse-engineering real-world attacks?

Join our Adversarial Threat Research Team!

As a Security Researcher, you will focus on analyzing automated threats targeting web applications and mobile ecosystems. You will reverse-engineer sophisticated bot frameworksranging from browser extensions and custom modified Chromium builds to mobile automation toolsand actively maintain and evolve the Akamai Mobile SDK to improve signal generation, anti-tampering defenses, and automated bot detection.

Shape internet security

As a Security Researcher, you will dissect suspicious client apps, analyze custom binaries, and build defenses impacting millions daily. You will advance your expertise in browser fingerprinting, custom Chromium builds, extension security, mobile SDKs, and anti-bot mitigation. Your findings and detections will directly shape our roadmap and strengthen Akamai's defenses against evasive automated threats.

As a Security Researcher, you will be responsible for:

• Updating and maintenance defensive telemetry collection mechanisms (including the Akamai Mobile SDK) to improve signal accuracy, runtime protection, and anti-tampering
• Dissecting patched mobile applications, custom Chromium modifications, browser extensions, and stealth automation frameworks to uncover bypass methods, anti-bot evasion techniques, and scale-enabling tools
• Analyzing large-scale web and mobile network traffic to identify browser fingerprint anomalies, protocol-level spoofs, and automated fraud vectors
• Partnering with data science and engineering teams to convert reverse-engineering findings into automated, production-grade bot-mitigation rules

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 3+ of experience as a Security Researcher with deep expertise in analyzing, deobfuscating, reverse-engineering heavily obfuscated JavaScript and Java code.
• Have hands-on experience leveraging AI/LLM tools and AI coding agents to accelerate reverse engineering, automate deobfuscation, and scale overall code analysis.
• Demonstrate proven experience analyzing browser extensions and custom builds like patched Chromium, deep understanding of web automation frameworks and engine
• Demonstrate ability to analyze and bypass advanced security controls like canvas/TLS fingerprinting, SSL pinning, and root/jailbreak detection across environments.
• Have data-driven mindset & good verbal and written communication skills

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.