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, within Akamai's Enterprise Security Group, focuses on advanced detection, threat intelligence, and proactive defense operations. Professionals passionate about building defenses, transforming research insights into actionable technical solutions, and directly supporting customers against active threats will thrive.
Partner with the best
You will serve as the technical bridge between our security research innovations and our global engineering operations. You will play a critical role in our customer-facing operations, delivering high-tier human support for Akamai ExAR. Acting as a trusted technical partner to our clients during advanced security investigations and critical events.
As a Security Engineer Senior, 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 and have Advanced or Fluent English
- 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 to explain AI-driven insights and implement customer-specific security solutions in fluent Japanese and business level English
Serve as a trusted technical advisor who can clearly explain AI-driven insights and implement customer-specific security solutions.
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 in security engineering, cloud-native architectures, XDR platforms, and SOC environments
- Ability to investigate complex cyberattacks and correlate diverse telemetry
- Ability to write robust Python code for scalable security data pipelines
- Advanced or fluent English
- Experience translating threat intelligence into automated defenses using scripting and APIs
- Deep understanding of attacker TTPs, MITRE ATT&CK, network protocols, and operating system internals
- Experience leveraging AI and machine learning for anomaly detection and threat mitigation
- Fluent Japanese and business-level English
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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