Akamai Technologies

Architect and scale ARM64 compute and hypervisor functionality, guide technical strategy and performance optimization, and provide engineering team leadership. | Requires 12 years of relevant experience, a bachelor's degree or equivalent, people leadership, and expertise in ARM64/x86 server platforms, cross-compilation, profiling, virtualization, and Linux systems. | Job Description Do you want to help design and implement the next generation of cloud computing? Do you want to lead the expansion of compute architectures across the Akamai Connected Cloud? Join our Compute team! As a member of Akamai's Cloud Compute team, develop scalable services linking on-premises or cloud infrastructure to Akamai Connected Cloud. Contribute to expanding cloud compute products supporting AI and general compute on ARM and x86 workloads. This position provides opportunities to create production-quality software across multiple architectures and layers within Cloud Computing environments. Partner with the best This role provides an opportunity to make a significant impact on Akamai's growing cloud offerings. You must have a passion to get things done quickly and get them done right. As a Principal Software Engineer Lead, you will be responsible for: • Architecting and scaling high-density ARM64 compute platform functionality and hypervisor layers across ACC. • Designing, implementing, reviewing, documenting, and testing high-quality code in close collaboration with your team. • Leading technical strategy for hardware enablement, cross-platform build pipelines, and workload performance optimization. • Working closely with peers and coordinating with global teams to build new compute features or resolve low-level software bugs. • Providing organizational and functional leadership to a team of engineers. Do What You Love To be successful in this role you will: • Have 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent. • Have a history of helping your reports excel in their current role, expand their knowledge, and progress to greater responsibility. • Possess deep familiarity with modern CPU architectures, specifically ARM64 / AArch64 and x86_64 server platforms. • Be experienced with cross-compilation toolchains, system profiling, and multi-architecture software deployment. • Have experience with cloud compute virtualization technologies (KVM, QEMU), container runtimes, Linux system APIs, or hypervisor integration. • Be experienced in technical design, product specification reviews, projects and backlog planning. • Be able to work productively to identify and resolve issues in a collaborative, transparent manner 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. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like! Compensation Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $169,300 - $304,700/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

Build relationships with data center operators, negotiate commercial agreements, identify cost savings, and coordinate capacity upgrades and upcoming projects. | Requires five years of relevant experience, a bachelor's degree or equivalent, strong negotiation and communication skills, data center market knowledge, and the ability to manage complex projects and priorities. | Job Description Would you like to manage and maintain relationships with Data Centers Operators? Do you like to work across diverse geographies, environments, cultures and technologies? Join our Data Center Strategy Team At Akamai, we build standard-setting edge infrastructure and secure cloud platform solutions. Our Data Center Strategy team leads critical project implementations that power global operations. We collaborate across regions to build reliable, high-performing facilities. Join us to lead key data center builds and shape our growing network infrastructure. Partner with the best As a Data Center Account Manager, you'll work with a team of global Account Managers to provide best possible outcomes with Data Center Operators. You will define strategy and cost savings to improve performance while ensuring Akamai meets its targets for growth and environmental sustainability As a Data Center Account Manager, you will be responsible for: • Developing relationships with Data Center Operators to meet Akamai's needs for deploying high density servers • Organizing regular business reviews with Data Centers to plan upcoming projects • Analyzing the Data Center landscape to identify the right technical and commercial terms • Working closely with existing and new Partners and Vendors to identify cost effective business relationships and then executing those agreements • Managing contract negotiations to ensure Akamai's platforms can scale efficiently and support our customers increasing demands • Ensuring capacity is upgraded in a timely/effective manner by working closely with internal and external provisioning teams Do What You Love To be successful in this role you will: • Have 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Data Center Account Management or in a related field or its equivalent • Have excellent commercial and contractual negotiation skills, the ability to identify creative ideas for complex negotiation situations including NNN leasing structures & powered shell transactions • Have solid knowledge and work experience on the Internet, Interconnection space and Data Center marketplace • Possess excellent data analysis skills, understanding of how to manage complex technical projects • Demonstrate excellent organization skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously • Possess excellent communication skills and a desire to negotiate partnerships within technical and business constraints 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. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like! Compensation Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $88,900 - $160,100/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

Lead a global team and drive engineering and product transformation, portfolio operations, program metrics, and process optimization. | Requires 15 years of relevant experience, a bachelor’s degree, large-scale change leadership, and familiarity with engineering and product development frameworks such as Lean Portfolio, SAFe, DORA, SDLC, or PDLC. | Job Description Do you relish the prospect of leading strategic cross-organization, transformational programs? Do you thrive on managing complexity and uncertainty? Join our Cloud Technology Group Business Operations team! Akamai's Cloud Technology Group seeks a results-oriented Senior Director of R&D Transformation & Operations to redefine global engineering and product processes. This strategic role drives CTG's operating model evolution, enhancing resource efficiency, predictability, decision-making speed, and strategic execution. Leading program managers and analysts, responsibilities include transformation roadmaps, PDLC/SDLC practices, portfolio management, R&D metrics, and PMO execution optimization. Partner with the best As a Senior Director of R&D Transformation & Operations , you will lead the definition and execution of complex transformation programs, directly managing a team of Transformation-focused Technical Program Managers, Analysts and Technical Trainers in their planning, implementation, development, and support of these efforts. As a Senior Director of R&D Transformation & Operations, you will be responsible for: • Guiding and mentoring a geographically diverse team, enabling strategic delegation to create a scalable and empowered workforce. • Guiding the creation of transformation strategies and supporting internal stakeholders, enabling teams to shift toward proactive, sustainable operational excellence. • Monitoring the overall health of projects and program within your portfolio, ensuring stringent data hygiene and accurate Engineering Productivity Metrics. • Negotiating program scope definition and modification and working with program sponsors to prepare for executive presentations. • Presenting program and portfolio updates regularly to senior executives, using data to encourage transparent discussions and informed decision-making. • Participating in internal projects to scale operations, enhance practices, and refine methodologies like Software Capitalization Administration, Agile coaching, and Tooling Standardizations. • Fostering an inclusive workplace culture that champions diversity, empathy, and belonging across all levels of the organization. Do What You Love To be successful in this role you will: • Have 15 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent • Have experience with enterprise engineering & product development framework and measurement systems, such as Lean Portfolio, SAFe, DORA, SDLC/PDLC. • Understand how to drive change management across large employee populations • Demonstrate expertise as a Program leader collaborating across teams, skillfully transitioning between strategic vision and intricate technical aspects. • Demonstrate expertise managing priorities and stakeholder demands to prioritize programs that optimize business value within minimal timeframes. • Have ability to Influence individuals across organizational levels without authority, leveraging unique skills to find compromises, bridge silos, and secure stakeholder support. 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. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like! Compensation Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $190,700 - $343,300/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

Lead design and implementation of cloud compute platform features and provide technical leadership to engineering teams. | 12+ years experience with deep knowledge of ARM64/x86 architectures, virtualization, cloud compute technologies, and leadership experience. | Job Description Do you want to help design and implement the next generation of cloud computing? Do you want to lead the expansion of compute architectures across the Akamai Connected Cloud? Join our Compute team! As a member of Akamai's Cloud Compute team, develop scalable services linking on-premises or cloud infrastructure to Akamai Connected Cloud. Contribute to expanding cloud compute products supporting AI and general compute on ARM and x86 workloads. This position provides opportunities to create production-quality software across multiple architectures and layers within Cloud Computing environments. Partner with the best This role provides an opportunity to make a significant impact on Akamai's growing cloud offerings. You must have a passion to get things done quickly and get them done right. As a Principal Software Engineer Lead, you will be responsible for: • Architecting and scaling high-density ARM64 compute platform functionality and hypervisor layers across ACC. • Designing, implementing, reviewing, documenting, and testing high-quality code in close collaboration with your team. • Leading technical strategy for hardware enablement, cross-platform build pipelines, and workload performance optimization. • Working closely with peers and coordinating with global teams to build new compute features or resolve low-level software bugs. • Providing organizational and functional leadership to a team of engineers. Do What You Love To be successful in this role you will: • Have 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent. • Have a history of helping your reports excel in their current role, expand their knowledge, and progress to greater responsibility. • Possess deep familiarity with modern CPU architectures, specifically ARM64 / AArch64 and x86_64 server platforms. • Be experienced with cross-compilation toolchains, system profiling, and multi-architecture software deployment. • Have experience with cloud compute virtualization technologies (KVM, QEMU), container runtimes, Linux system APIs, or hypervisor integration. • Be experienced in technical design, product specification reviews, projects and backlog planning. • Be able to work productively to identify and resolve issues in a collaborative, transparent manner 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. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like! Compensation Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $169,300 - $304,700/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

Lead design and implementation of cloud compute platform features and provide technical leadership to engineering teams. | 12+ years experience with deep knowledge of ARM64/x86 architectures, virtualization, cloud compute, and leadership experience. | Job Description Do you want to help design and implement the next generation of cloud computing? Do you want to lead the expansion of compute architectures across the Akamai Connected Cloud? Join our Compute team! As a member of Akamai's Cloud Compute team, develop scalable services linking on-premises or cloud infrastructure to Akamai Connected Cloud. Contribute to expanding cloud compute products supporting AI and general compute on ARM and x86 workloads. This position provides opportunities to create production-quality software across multiple architectures and layers within Cloud Computing environments. Partner with the best This role provides an opportunity to make a significant impact on Akamai's growing cloud offerings. You must have a passion to get things done quickly and get them done right. As a Principal Software Engineer Lead, you will be responsible for: • Architecting and scaling high-density ARM64 compute platform functionality and hypervisor layers across ACC. • Designing, implementing, reviewing, documenting, and testing high-quality code in close collaboration with your team. • Leading technical strategy for hardware enablement, cross-platform build pipelines, and workload performance optimization. • Working closely with peers and coordinating with global teams to build new compute features or resolve low-level software bugs. • Providing organizational and functional leadership to a team of engineers. Do What You Love To be successful in this role you will: • Have 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent. • Have a history of helping your reports excel in their current role, expand their knowledge, and progress to greater responsibility. • Possess deep familiarity with modern CPU architectures, specifically ARM64 / AArch64 and x86_64 server platforms. • Be experienced with cross-compilation toolchains, system profiling, and multi-architecture software deployment. • Have experience with cloud compute virtualization technologies (KVM, QEMU), container runtimes, Linux system APIs, or hypervisor integration. • Be experienced in technical design, product specification reviews, projects and backlog planning. • Be able to work productively to identify and resolve issues in a collaborative, transparent manner 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. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like! Compensation Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $169,300 - $304,700/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

Lead design, development, and management of software and infrastructure for hardware platforms and observability in a cloud environment. | 8+ years experience with Linux kernel, ARM hardware, virtualization, and infrastructure automation tools. | Job Description Are you passionate about cutting edge technology? Do you enjoy working with a diverse multi-national team of engineering talents? Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We do this while maintaining Akamai's mission at the forefront of what we do: make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Partner with the best In this role, you'll be at the forefront of Akamai Cloud hypervisor host technologies. HIVE is responsible for supplying our fleets with hardware and the host and guest Linux platforms that make them work. SEQ works to enable new hardware via our provisioning service, provide seamless firmware upgrade models, and collaborate with other HIVE teams. As a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer Lead, you will be responsible for: • Architecting, developing, testing, and distributing changes to software, services, and tools to enable hardware platforms delivered by the HIVE team. • Designing and implementing enhancements to HIVE observability infrastructure in order to identify and correct problems before they impact our customers • Developing subject matter expertise in HIVE components and mentoring the team. • Identifying and implementing automation best practices for existing products and processes. • Collaborating with our support, operations and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems. • Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues. Do What You Love To be successful in this role you will: • 8+ years of experience and a Bachelor's diploma in Computer Science or its equivalent • Possess a deep understanding of underlying hardware and best practices for enabling advanced HW features in Linux, especially for ARM architecture such as NVIDIA Grace. • Possess advanced level experience with the Linux kernel, OS, KVM/QEMU, and nested virtualization. • Possess expert level experience with designing, developing, and deploying software and infrastructure at scale • Have advanced level experience in a DevOps, Development, or SysAdmin role, working with large scale distributed systems • Have experience with tools like SaltStack and Ansible for managing infrastructure at scale 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. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like! Compensation Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $146,400 - $263,600/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

Lead product strategy and roadmap development for public sector cloud products, collaborating with stakeholders and ensuring compliance. | Requires 10 years product management experience in cloud/SaaS, US citizenship, security clearance, and knowledge of public sector compliance frameworks. | Job Description Do you enjoy solving large-scale challenges? Would you like to impact the digital experiences of billions of people? Join our next-generation cloud platform team! As part of Akamai's Cloud Technology Group (CTG), our mission is to empower customers to build powerful, distributed intelligent applications, through a simple, scalable, cloud platform. We provide the infrastructure and services that enable developers and enterprises to build next generation edge native applications. Partner with the best In this role, you will be instrumental in shaping the foundation of Akamai's next-generation Government products. This involves solving complex customer problems, while meeting compliance standards. You will collaborate closely with federal stakeholders and cross-functional teams to deliver best-in-class solutions. As a Principal Product Manager for Public Sector, you will be responsible for: - Leading product strategy and roadmap development aligned with Public Sector requirements and market opportunities. - Gathering and synthesizing requirements from government agencies and internal stakeholders to guide product development. - Defining and tracking success metrics for new products and features from prototype through production deployment. - Presenting product vision and updates to senior leadership and government stakeholders with compelling clarity. - Building partnerships across product, engineering, and customer-facing teams while maintaining effective communication channels. Do What You Love To be successful in this role you will: - Have 10 years of product management expertise launching complex cloud/SaaS products and a bachelor's degree Computer Science or similar field. - Have U.S. citizenship and a Secret security clearance or the ability to obtain Top Secret clearance are required. - Demonstrate experience supporting DoD, IC, or federal civilian agencies in cleared environments. - Have a deep understanding of US Public Sector compliance frameworks, including FedRAMP and Cloud Impact Levels. - Have advanced technical knowledge in cloud computing, distributed systems, and cybersecurity. - Enjoy operating in a matrixed organization aligning stakeholders through clear communication and collaboration. - Be customer-centric, applying a problem-solving mindset to situations and a commitment to continuous learning and professional growth. 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. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like! Compensation Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $159,600 - $287,400/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

Lead end-to-end user experience research to influence product strategy and improve customer outcomes in complex technical domains. | 5 years relevant experience, bachelor's degree, expertise in qualitative and quantitative research, and experience with complex enterprise software or cloud infrastructure. | Job Description Are you energized by solving complex problems and learning technical domains? Do you want to shape products that power and protect life online at an internet scale? Join Our User Experience & Tech Writing Team At Akamai, we power and protect life online. Leading organizations rely on our platform to deliver secure digital experiences globally. You will join a team dedicated to making complex internet technologies easier to understand and use. We help teams build products that technical customers love. Partner with the best In this role, you will uncover customer needs and influence product strategy. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve application and infrastructure management. Your research will shape global products spanning content delivery, cloud computing, and security. As a Senior User Experience Researcher, you will be responsible for: • Leading end-to-end research across the product lifecycle from early discovery through post-launch evaluation • Designing and conducting qualitative and quantitative research using interviews, usability studies, surveys, and analytics • Partnering closely with cross-functional teams to influence product roadmap decisions and improve customer outcomes • Researching highly technical workflows involving content delivery, cloud infrastructure, automation, and edge computing • Building relationships with developers, engineers, and architects to deeply understand how they operate internet applications • Translating research findings into compelling insights, journeys, and recommendations that drive strategic product decisions Do What You Love To be successful in this role you will: • Have 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree • Demonstrate success influencing product strategy through rigorous customer research • Have experience working with complex enterprise software, developer platforms, or cloud infrastructure • Possess expert qualitative and quantitative research methods skills to apply throughout the product development lifecycle • Be knowledgeable about content delivery networks, networking, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity domains, or developer tooling • Demonstrate solid communication and storytelling skills to effectively influence stakeholders across product, engineering, and design 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. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like! Compensation Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $100,700 - $181,300/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

Develop and deliver technical marketing content and demonstrations for API security products. | 8+ years hands-on technical experience including security or related roles, strong communication and product demonstration skills. | Job Description Would you like to help organizations secure the APIs, AI applications, and agentic systems that power modern business? Are you excited about turning hands-on security expertise into credible technical content, demonstrations, and product marketing programs? Be Part of Our Security Product Marketing Team As APIs and AI agents transform how digital experiences and business processes are built, they also expand the attack surface and introduce new security risks. This role helps customers, partners, and internal teams understand and evaluate Akamai's API, AI, and agentic security solutions through technically credible demonstrations, content, enablement, and thought leadership. By building and operating products in practical environments, you will help showcase how Akamai protects modern applications, APIs, and agent-driven interactions. Partner with the best As the technical voice of the Security Product Marketing team, you will develop implementation-level expertise in Akamai's API Security portfolio and emerging AI and agent security capabilities. Working across Product Marketing, Product Management, Engineering, and Solution Engineering, you will translate hands-on product knowledge into clear technical positioning, proof, demonstrations, and reusable assets. You will provide the technical depth, evidence, validation, and demonstrations that make product narratives, launches, campaigns, and sales programs credible with technical buyers. As a Technical Marketing Engineer, you will be responsible for: • Deploying, configuring, and operating Akamai security products in lab and production like environments to understand and document capabilities, limitations, integration requirements, and configuration patterns • Building and maintaining proof-of-concept environments, reference architectures, API attack simulations, and agentic workflow scenarios that demonstrate real-world security challenges • Creating reusable product demonstrations, hands-on labs, workshops, technical training, and proof-of-concept playbooks for customers, partners, and field teams • Partnering with Product Marketing to translate product capabilities into technical positioning, solution briefs, launch and campaign content, sales narratives, and other assets for technical buyers, including helping launch new products and capabilities • Developing technical blogs, white papers, implementation guides, integration documentation, and architecture content for API Security, Application Security, and AI and agent security solutions • Reviewing and validating technical claims in messaging, sales enablement, launch materials, and analyst content to ensure they are accurate, defensible, and supported by product capabilities • Delivering product demonstrations, technical-buyer briefings, analyst technical deep dives, presentations, and workshops for customers, partners, internal stakeholders, security practitioner communities, and select industry events • Collaborating with Product Management, Engineering, and Solution Engineering to understand the roadmap, test product capabilities and limits, and translate customer and field feedback into actionable product input Do What You Love To be successful in this role you will: • Have 8 years of relevant experience in a hands-on role such as Technical Marketing Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Solutions Architect, Security Engineer, Systems Engineer, DevOps or Platform Engineer, or Technical Product Manager including customer-facing or market-facing experience and a Bachelor’s degree or its equivalen t • Bringing hands-on experience or strong working knowledge of AI agents, large language model (LLM) application security, agent discovery, agent-to-tool and agent-to-API interactions • Demonstrating expertise in API Security, Web Application and API Protection (WAAP), the OWASP API Security Top 10, API gateways, runtime security, and traffic analysis • Demonstrating the ability to independently deploy, configure, operate, and troubleshoot security, cloud, or application infrastructure • Building compelling demonstrations, proof-of-concept environments, hands-on labs, and technical content that simplify complex security concepts and connect product capabilities to customer challenges • Communicating complex technical information effectively to security practitioners, architects, executives, analysts, and cross-functional teams, applying curiosity, sound judgement, and independent problem-solving in rapidly evolving environments Build your career at Akamai Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We’re doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn, grow and have a meaningful impact. With our company moving so fast, it’s important that you’re able to build new skills, explore new roles, and try out different opportunities. There are so many different ways to build your career at Akamai, and we want to support you as much as possible. We have all kinds of development opportunities available, from programs such as GROW and Mentoring, to internal events like the APEX Expo and tools such as Linkedin Learning, all to help you expand your knowledge and experience here. Learn more Not sure if this job is the right match for you or want to learn more about the job before you apply? Schedule a 15-minute exploratory call with the Recruiter and they would be happy to share more details. Compensation Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $119,600 - $215,400/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.