Do you love helping customers overcome technical challenges?
Are you excited by the prospect of working with innovative solutions ?
Architect the Future of the Internet
At Akamai, we are the architects of a fast, smart, and secure digital world. As a partner to the Global 500, we don't just solve technical problems; we enable the world's most influential companies to deliver seamless experiences to millions.We are looking for a Solutions Engineer to join our Pre-Sales team in Amsterdam.
Partner with the best
As a Solutions Engineer, you will serve as a trusted advisor, guiding enterprises in designing the backbone of their digital presence. You will lead the technical strategy, bridging the gap between engineering and strategic business goals.
As a Solutions Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Leading Technical Strategy, driving the pre-sales process for multi-product solutions, ensuring every recommendation is perfectly aligned with the customer's business objectives.
- Being the primary technical authority for our customers, leading high-impact activities including Technical Demos, Customer Analysis Reports (CARs), and complex Proof of Concepts (POCs).
- Partnering with Engineering and Product teams, designing innovative solutions that optimize performance, security, and reliability at the intelligent edge.
- Sharing your expertise with those around you, fostering a culture of technical excellence and collaborative problem-solving.
- Driving the "Technical Win": Masterfully explain Return of Investment (ROI) and technical value, ensuring Akamai remains the partner of choice against global competitors.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Love to learn new technology, skills, and have a curious mindset.
- Have a comprehensive mastery of "how the internet works," including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, TLS, and cloud-based architectures.
- Have experience with internet based security technologies.
- Have a track record in a customer-facing technical role (Pre-sales/Consulting) where you've managed the full lifecycle of a technical sale.
- Have experience whiteboarding a complex architecture and presenting a business case to C-suite executives.
- Have experience with scripting and coding (Python, JavaScript, Rust, GO) for building custom integrations with edge technologies and AI-native workflows.
- Be fluent in English is required. Given our location in the heart of Amsterdam, fluency in Dutch is a significant asset.
Work in a way that works for you
FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.
Learn what makes Akamai a great place to work
We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.
At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.
Working for you
At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:
- Your health
- Your finances
- Your family
- Your time at work
- Your time pursuing other endeavors
Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.
About us
Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.
Join us
Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!
Skills Required
- Mastery of how the internet works including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, TLS, and cloud-based architectures
- Experience with internet-based security technologies
- Customer-facing technical role with full lifecycle management of technical sale
- Experience whiteboarding complex architecture and presenting to C-suite executives
- Experience with scripting and coding for custom integrations with edge technologies and AI-native workflows
- Fluent in English, fluency in Dutch is a significant asset
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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