Senior Security Engineer

Job Description

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, part of Akamai's Enterprise Security Group, specializes in detection, threat intelligence, and proactive defense operations. Its goal is identifying hidden threats, developing detection methods, and enhancing network and cloud security for global organizations. Experts dedicated to creating solutions, applying research, and assisting customers in mitigating active risks will excel in this environment.

Become a Security Engineering Subject Matter Expert

The Senior Security Engineer connects security research advancements with global engineering efforts, providing expert support during investigations and critical incidents. This role involves delivering exceptional client-facing services while serving as a reliable technical resource for advanced security challenges and events.

As a Senior Security Engineer, 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.
• 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.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor who can clearly explain AI-driven insights and implement customer-specific security solutions.
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment, collaborating effectively with global teams to deliver measurable security outcomes.
  
  

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.

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