Jobs at Akamai Technologies

Develop machine learning models and detection rules for web security products. Analyze large datasets to distinguish legitimate from fraudulent traffic, improve detection accuracy, support production data workflows, troubleshoot distributed systems, and provide insights that guide product improvements and strategy.

Designs end-to-end architectures and high-level designs for web security products and features, spanning configuration, reporting, runtime systems, analytics, and attack detection. Collaborates with product management and cross-functional teams to define requirements, guides engineering implementation, presents designs, and contributes security product expertise and technical roadmap direction.

Develop and maintain automated tests, testing frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines for cloud-native Kubernetes platforms. Validate scalable architectures, troubleshoot automated test failures, collaborate with engineering teams in Agile environments, and help establish testing best practices. The role requires Python and Pytest automation experience, Kubernetes and cloud-native production service testing, Linux and networking knowledge, security principles, and two years of relevant experience.

Leads test framework architecture and continuous execution pipelines for cloud platform features. Defines quality engineering standards, advances automation roadmaps, tests highly available Kubernetes and containerized services, and improves continuous delivery stability and release confidence. The role also mentors junior engineers and partners with developers, product stakeholders, and engineering leadership.

Develop and maintain automated unit, integration, and end-to-end test frameworks for scalable virtualized server platforms. Define test strategies, performance quality gates, deployment validation, rollback verification, and test plans for microservices. Investigate deployment issues, troubleshoot root causes, collaborate with engineering teams on integration testing, improve test environments, and automate platform service deployments using scripting and CI/CD tools.

Owns VM and fleet test strategy, hypervisor validation, performance quality gates, and systems-level testing for an IaaS platform. Designs reproducible bare-metal-like environments, develops automated benchmarks and regression gates, validates SLOs and deployment safety, and builds test harnesses in Go, Python, and Perl. The role requires deep expertise in KVM/QEMU/libvirt, Linux internals, x86 and ARM architectures, performance analysis, statistical testing, and CI/CD tooling.

Design, build, and scale backend data services, APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and high-volume data pipelines. Optimize PostgreSQL and Oracle databases, improve reliability and performance across regions, diagnose complex production issues, and mentor engineers. Partner with DBA and SRE teams while providing hands-on technical leadership and owning services end to end.

Designs and maintains scalable build and deployment pipelines, enforces release quality gates, resolves environment and infrastructure issues, and integrates AI agents into CI/CD workflows for automated testing, log analysis, production monitoring, and incident triage.

Develop and enhance Akamai EdgeWorkers applications and services for distributed edge computing. Responsibilities include shaping user-focused UI, CLI, and API experiences; writing Java and TypeScript code; participating in code reviews; troubleshooting production issues; implementing automated tests; debugging distributed Linux systems, microservices, and containerized environments; and collaborating across technical and non-technical teams.

Serves as the primary security services contact for customers, guiding the integration and effective use of Akamai web security products. Collaborates with cross-functional and sales teams to understand customer needs, tune solutions, implement security and web technologies, and improve delivery methodologies. Requires expertise in internet protocols, CDN operation, web development, IT systems, security practices, consultative customer engagement, and project management. Must be able to obtain and maintain Canadian government clearance.

Manage end-to-end technical customer engagements for global brands using the Akamai platform. Advise customers on web architecture, integration solutions, performance, security strategy, and best practices. Collaborate with account teams and internal stakeholders to deliver large technical projects, improve integration quality, and strengthen customer relationships. Communicate complex technical information clearly through presentations and customer-facing consulting.

Manages end-to-end technical customer engagements and projects for Akamai’s security, media, and performance platform. Collaborates with account teams to evaluate architectures, deliver solutions, improve integration efficiency, ensure customer success, and establish long-term strategies. Partners cross-functionally, facilitates stakeholder communication, contributes to internal projects, and develops best practices for service delivery and technical integrations.

Provides end-to-end security consultancy, customer integration, and technical support for Akamai solutions. Serves as the primary customer contact, leads integrated account teams, improves service delivery, identifies risks and enhancements, and communicates with customers, partners, and internal teams. Requires strong knowledge of network or web security technologies, customer-facing IT experience, technical project delivery skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities.

Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of scalable, low-latency backend services and REST APIs using Python, Flask, and SQLAlchemy. Establish API standards, optimize databases, implement authentication and observability, and design fault-tolerant distributed systems. Lead technical reviews, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams on API contracts and integration workflows. The role also requires expertise in security, CI/CD, cloud platforms, containerization, testing, event-driven architectures, and emerging AI tooling.

Defines test strategies and performance quality gates while automating testing, deployment, rollback, and validation for scalable virtualized server platforms. Develops unit, integration, and end-to-end test frameworks; creates test plans for microservices; troubleshoots deployment issues; writes deployment scripts; and collaborates with engineering teams on integration testing and environment improvements.

Develop and maintain automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing frameworks for cloud-native platform services. Investigate deployment issues, troubleshoot root causes, create test plans, validate rollback strategies, and automate service deployments. Collaborate with engineering teams on testing changes and integration environments involving Kubernetes, Service Mesh, APIs, and control-plane technologies. Apply Linux, networking, scripting, performance, and SLO monitoring expertise to ensure scalable, reliable, and secure deployments.

Automate software testing, deployment, and validation for scalable cloud-native platform services. Responsibilities include developing unit, integration, and end-to-end test frameworks; troubleshooting deployment issues; creating test plans; validating rollback strategies; collaborating on integration testing; and scripting platform-service deployments across diverse environments and architectures.

Develop and maintain automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing frameworks for cloud-native platform services. Investigate deployment failures, troubleshoot cross-environment and architecture-specific issues, create test plans, validate rollback strategies, collaborate across engineering teams, and automate platform deployments. The role requires strong Python, Pytest, Linux, Bash, virtualization, CI/CD, and modern software development lifecycle expertise.

Leads and mentors a global Site Reliability Engineering team supporting cloud-based Identity and Access Management services. Responsibilities include managing team performance, shaping product roadmaps, driving technical innovation, operating in an Agile environment, developing best practices, and diagnosing system reliability and performance. The role requires extensive experience with large-scale distributed systems, cloud-native deployments, containers, scripting, and software development lifecycles.

Develop and maintain manual and automated integration, functional, load, and performance tests for cloud APIs and identity services. Build Python automation frameworks, improve CI/CD infrastructure, review automation code, and partner with globally distributed engineering teams. Ensure Akamai cloud systems meet specifications for resilience, security, scalability, and release readiness. Troubleshoot Kubernetes applications and contribute to deployment planning.