Are you excited to work with innovative security products?
Are you a security engineer who enjoys building robust defenses to help organizations stay safe?
Join Akamai Guardicore (Enterprise Security Group)
Akamai ExAR, part of Akamai's Enterprise Security Group, specializes in detection, threat intelligence, and proactive defense operations. Its goal is identifying hidden threats, developing detection methods, and enhancing network and cloud security for global organizations. Experts dedicated to creating solutions, applying research, and assisting customers in mitigating active risks will excel in this environment.
Become a Security Engineering Subject Matter Expert
The Senior Security Engineer connects security research advancements with global engineering efforts, providing expert support during investigations and critical incidents. This role involves delivering exceptional client-facing services while serving as a reliable technical resource for advanced security challenges and events.
As a Senior Security Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Investigating complex cyber-attacks to uncover adversary behaviors and support customer defenses.
- Designing and monitoring production-grade code for new detection methodologies across large-scale telemetry.
- Triaging high-severity incidents, presenting investigation findings, and providing advanced technical support to customers.
- Analyzing AI-generated detections and partnering with researchers to continuously refine their effectiveness.
- Applying actionable Threat Intelligence to identify tactical shifts and proactively enhance defensive coverage.
- Working closely with globally dispersed teams to ensure seamless operational continuity and knowledge sharing.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 5+ years of cybersecurity experience spanning security engineering, cloud-native architectures, XDR platforms, and SOC environments.
- Combine investigative intuition with engineering rigor to independently correlate diverse telemetry and disrupt threat actors.
- Write robust code (e.g., Python) to build, monitor, and maintain modern, scalable security data pipelines.
- Partner with the Research team to translate threat intelligence into automated defenses using advanced scripting and APIs
- Have a deep understanding of attacker TTPs, MITRE ATT&CK, network protocols, and OS internals.
- Leverage AI and machine learning to identify anomalies, mitigate active threats, and streamline complex detection workflows.
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor who can clearly explain AI-driven insights and implement customer-specific security solutions.
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment, collaborating effectively with global teams to deliver measurable security outcomes.
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 cybersecurity experience
- Experience spanning security engineering, cloud-native architectures, XDR platforms, and SOC environments
- Ability to write robust Python or comparable code for scalable security data pipelines
- Experience using scripting and APIs to translate threat intelligence into automated defenses
- Deep understanding of attacker TTPs, MITRE ATT&CK, network protocols, and operating system internals
- Experience leveraging AI and machine learning for anomaly detection, threat mitigation, or detection workflows
- Ability to independently correlate diverse telemetry and investigate complex cyberattacks
- Ability to provide advanced technical support, communicate investigation findings, and advise customers
- Ability to collaborate effectively with globally distributed teams
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.
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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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