Senior Security Engineer

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.

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.

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