Jobs at Akamai Technologies

Lead Akamai’s global billing and commercial platform strategy, roadmap, and product vision across Compute, Delivery, and Security. Responsibilities include converging legacy and cloud billing systems, enabling usage-based monetization and product-led growth, building enterprise commerce capabilities, ensuring SOX compliance, and aligning Product, Engineering, Sales, Finance, and Legal. The role also involves developing reusable rating, metering, entitlement, and invoicing capabilities for new products, AI technologies, and acquisitions.

Develop and maintain Akamai’s custom Linux kernel and distribution. Responsibilities include adding performance, reliability, and security features; porting modifications to newer kernel versions; debugging production and test issues; improving build and continuous-testing automation; collaborating with platform, application, test, and hardware teams; and contributing work upstream to the Linux community.

Develop and maintain Akamai’s custom Linux kernel for its cloud platform. Responsibilities include adding performance, reliability, and security features; porting modifications across kernel versions; debugging production and test issues; improving build and continuous-testing automation; collaborating with platform, application, hardware, and test teams; and contributing changes upstream to the Linux community.

Design, implement, optimize, and operate highly available distributed data streaming platforms across FedRAMP environments. Develop concurrent, low-latency software using C, C++, Go, or Java; support full-stack data delivery; troubleshoot complex network and distributed-system issues; and provide technical guidance through code reviews and mentoring.

Leads product strategy and execution for AI infrastructure and inference offerings, including GPU clusters, model deployment, serverless inference, and cloud platforms. Owns portfolio revenue, adoption, and customer satisfaction; partners with engineering, SRE, and go-to-market teams on delivery, pricing, and positioning. Builds and manages a high-performing product organization while representing the company with customers, partners, and analysts.

Manages the company’s international tax accounting function, including worldwide tax provisions, Pillar Two and GloBE calculations, statutory provisions, deferred taxes, regulatory changes, internal controls, and SOX compliance. Partners with Treasury, Legal, Finance, Accounting, and external providers while leading a Krakow-based team. Requires advanced ASC 740 and SEC knowledge, international tax provision experience, and familiarity with Oracle and OneSource Tax Provision.

Manage server procurement and supply chain projects supporting Akamai’s global infrastructure. Responsibilities include vendor relationship management, scorecards, cross-functional planning, supply issue resolution, inventory risk mitigation, deployment sequencing, warehouse transfers, and equipment substitutions. The role requires forecasting and procurement expertise, analytical and financial judgment, project and vendor management, and strong negotiation and intercultural communication skills.

Leads Akamai’s global Platform IAM engineering organization, overseeing managers, software engineers, and architects. Sets technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for scalable, resilient, low-latency identity and authorization systems. Ensures software development quality, safety, and performance while partnering across teams to convert business goals into technical milestones. Coaches and grows a distributed engineering organization and drives delivery of customer-facing IAM platforms.

Analyzes business problems, KPIs, forecasts, capacity, and quantitative models to support product strategy and operational excellence. Improves processes, standardizes global metrics, develops data-driven insights, and facilitates stakeholder business reviews for better decision-making and productivity.

Leads technical pre-sales strategy for web performance products, designing cloud and edge solutions for complex customer requirements. Acts as a technical escalation point, supports proofs of concept, provides web performance subject-matter expertise, and influences product roadmaps. Builds customer relationships through consultative selling and presents technical and business concepts to diverse audiences.

Develop scalable, automated software that improves product and platform security. Build and maintain full-stack applications, including front-end interfaces, application frameworks, data management, analytics, and visualization tools. Provide performance insights to customers and internal teams, research relevant technologies, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver effective solutions.

Translates compliance guidelines into business requirements, technical specifications, and security frameworks. Collaborates with internal teams, assessors, sales, project managers, support, engineering, and customers to understand web-scale systems, meet security obligations, integrate solutions, mitigate risks, and support go-live activities. Provides guidance on security controls, DDoS mitigation, network monitoring, incident escalation, threat detection, and security documentation.

Designs and implements scalable integrations between Noname Security and Akamai infrastructure. Leads architectural changes across R&D teams, improves reliability and deployment efficiency, oversees critical integration components, guides design patterns and platform strategy, and establishes engineering best practices. Requires expertise in cloud infrastructure security, distributed backend systems, database optimization, event-driven architecture, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Python, Flask, TypeScript, and REST APIs.

Develops internal marketing communications and employee recognition programs, analyzes communications metrics, coordinates global information sharing and quarterly all-hands meetings, creates employee news stories, and manages intranet and newsletter content. The role requires expertise in video editing, project management tools, presentations, data visualization, surveys, change communications, and ERP software.

Designs, develops, tests, implements, maintains, and supports custom software applications across internet security, content delivery, APIs, machine learning, and cloud computing. The role improves platform functionality, develops new capabilities, automates product operations, contributes to architecture and software design, and expands automated unit, functional, integration, and end-to-end testing.

Deploy and operate scalable, highly available cloud systems; improve network security, stability, speed, and capacity; automate cloud deployments; monitor services and capacity; analyze logs and events; troubleshoot infrastructure issues; maintain SLAs; perform root cause analysis and implement security fixes using CI/CD, IaC, Ansible, Terraform, Salt, Python, Bash, GitLab, and Linux.

Develop and deploy automated system tests for distributed software systems. Build test beds, unit tests, automation tools, and infrastructure; collaborate with developers and QA teams; create test plans and ensure coverage; review system requirements and test cases; and improve testing methodologies and efficiency using software development and coding.

Designs and leads large-scale software subsystems, architecture, coding standards, code reviews, debugging tools, performance optimization, refactoring, and QA automation. Guides business and technical solution definition, evaluates production readiness using objective metrics, and develops web content management, workflow automation, integrations, and database solutions. The role is telecommuting eligible throughout the United States.

Lead development and operation of a scalable Kubernetes-based cloud-native platform. Shape the engineering roadmap, deliver enterprise platform capabilities, establish best practices, mentor engineers, and collaborate across Agile teams. Build highly available and fault-tolerant production services using Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies, while applying expertise in Go, Python or Bash, networking, Linux, and CI/CD practices.

Design, build, and operate scalable infrastructure and CI/CD/IaC systems. Implement observability (monitoring, logging, alerting), automate reliability improvements, mentor engineers, collaborate on incident response, and participate in on-call rotations to maintain Akamai Cloud services.