Do you enjoy collaborating with engineers and architects to shape products for billions of online users?
Are you excited to work with innovative security products?
Join our team
The Application Security Team works with Development, Product, Support, and Sales Engineering teams to ensure secure, high-quality products for customers.
Partner with the best
Seeking a Senior Security Engineer to provide technical expertise and collaborate with engineering teams, embedding security in cloud solutions. This role involves safeguarding enterprise applications while fostering a security-focused culture. Success requires guiding individuals, refining processes, and leveraging technical skills to ensure comprehensive protection and alignment across systems and teams.
As a Senior Security Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Governing the vulnerability management lifecycle by overseeing processes, tooling, and remediation efforts across all engineering teams.
- Automating workflows and processes to reduce developer friction, toil, and manual overhead across daily security operations.
- Collaborating with GRC and Engineering teams to ensure compliance with industry security standards and regulatory frameworks.
- Partnering closely with development and infrastructure teams to identify and remediate critical security issues and vulnerabilities.
- Implementing comprehensive SSDLC practicesImplementing comprehensive Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) practices to strengthen security throughout the entire development process.
- Mitigating vulnerabilities and security weaknesses in code and infrastructure through partnership with operations and engineering teams.
- Serving as a lead security subject matter expert during incident response efforts and customer security escalations.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
- Demonstrate capability to collaborate and communicate effectively with cross-functional engineering and DevOps teams, fostering a cooperative security-focused culture.
- Work within contemporary cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, and Linode, leveraging expertise in these environments effectively.
- Demonstrate expertise in industry compliance standards such as FedRAMP, PCI, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and SOC2.
- Gain experience configuring and operating core security testing tools, including SAST, DAST, SCA, IaC scanning, and CSPM in enterprise SSDLC pipelines.
- Demonstrate expertise in at least one programming language such as C, Java, Golang, Python, or JavaScript.
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.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional engineering and DevOps teams
- Experience with contemporary cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, Linode)
- Expertise with industry compliance standards (FedRAMP, PCI, ISO 27001, HIPAA, SOC2)
- Experience configuring and operating security testing tools (SAST, DAST, SCA, IaC scanning, CSPM)
- Expertise in at least one programming language (C, Java, Golang, Python, or JavaScript)
Akamai Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Akamai Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Akamai Technologies.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO in the U.S., wellness days, paid volunteering time, and the FlexBase model contribute to broad time‑off flexibility. These practices are described as supporting strong work‑life balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leaves, paid family care leave, subsidized backup childcare, and inclusive family‑building benefits via Carrot form a comprehensive family support suite. Coverage spans fertility support through caregiving resources.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a substantial company match and immediate vesting, plus Roth and Mega Backdoor Roth options, underpin long‑term savings. These features provide reliable long‑term savings opportunities.
Akamai Technologies Insights
What We Do
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every moment, billions of people, all over the world, are using the internet to shop, play games, look after finances, learn remotely, share videos, connect across the world, and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission, and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges, and turning the impossible into the possible. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Do you want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!
Why Work With Us
Our people are devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence, and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse, and we love to collaborate across the world.
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