Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 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

Benefits

• 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.