Jobs at Akamai Technologies

Design, build, test, deploy, and optimize scalable distributed-system software. Develop new features, enhance and troubleshoot existing applications, collaborate across engineering and product teams, work in Agile sprints, resolve complex technical issues, and evaluate emerging technologies including LLM-powered applications and AI agents.

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer improves the reliability, scalability, availability, and performance of distributed content delivery systems. Responsibilities include defining SLOs and SLIs, monitoring platforms, debugging incidents, implementing corrective actions, automating operational processes, participating in design reviews, and guiding scalable infrastructure design. The role collaborates with Product and Engineering teams and applies software engineering, systems administration, cloud, DevOps, and SRE practices.

Maintains and supports corporate network infrastructure across global environments. Configures, deploys, monitors, and troubleshoots routers, switches, firewalls, wired and wireless networks, data centers, and related systems. Manages network changes, monitoring, incident prevention, and customer communications. Provides rotating weekend on-call support and serves as the technical point of contact for Bangalore. Requires hands-on experience with Cisco, Fortinet, Juniper, routing protocols, SD-WAN, network security, and complex networks.

Design, deploy, and maintain Akamai’s Compute platform infrastructure and internal tools. Improve service availability, reliability, scalability, observability, and performance through automation, monitoring, and configuration management. Support incident response and on-call operations, troubleshoot customer-impacting issues, define reliability requirements, and mentor other SRE engineers while collaborating across teams.

Designs and maintains automated testing frameworks for API-based security and threat protection products. Develops test strategies, executes tests, improves coverage, evaluates testing tools, and collaborates with engineering teams on code, design, test plans, and automation frameworks in an Agile environment. Supports releases, testing process improvements, customer installations, and product demonstrations.

Designs, develops, and executes automated testing solutions for distributed systems and enterprise applications. Creates test strategies, plans, cases, and traceability for database, API, integration, and performance testing. Builds Python automation frameworks, validates cloud ERP and CRM platforms, investigates defects through log analysis and root-cause debugging, and collaborates with architects, developers, business analysts, and management to improve software quality and reliability.

Lead complex security investigations by analyzing large-scale web traffic and telemetry to detect bot, fraud, and account-takeover activity. Develop targeted detection improvements, create new detections, document findings, and collaborate with product, ops, and customer-facing teams to reduce false positives and drive product strategy.

Research and reverse-engineer sophisticated web and mobile automation threats, including custom Chromium builds, browser extensions, patched applications, and stealth frameworks. Analyze traffic, fingerprints, protocols, and security-control bypasses; maintain Akamai Mobile SDK telemetry and anti-tampering defenses; and collaborate with engineering and data science teams to develop production-grade bot detection and mitigation rules.

Designs and manages Finance data integrations and migrations into Oracle Cloud. Configures Oracle Fusion extraction, FDI pipelines, semantic models, data catalogs, dashboards, and reporting. Leads technical roadmaps, data-quality validation, monitoring, reconciliation, testing, deployments, and production support. Requires deep Oracle data engineering expertise and strong understanding of Finance, SCM, and HCM processes, with the ability to advise business stakeholders.

Develop and maintain automated system tests for highly reliable distributed systems supporting Akamai’s global network. Responsibilities include creating test plans, deploying automated tests, improving testing methodologies, reviewing system requirements, validating test cases, mentoring engineers, and evaluating testing infrastructure technologies. The role collaborates with international, cross-functional teams and requires programming, Linux/Unix, networking, and version-control expertise.

Design, develop, deploy, and maintain automated system tests for large-scale distributed systems. Create real-world test scenarios, improve automation methodologies, review system requirements and test plans, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. The role also includes mentoring less experienced engineers and evaluating testing infrastructure technologies.

Provides technical support for Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Zero Trust cybersecurity products. Investigates and resolves complex B2B customer issues, owns problem resolution, collaborates with internal teams, analyzes recurring technical problems, and proposes preventive solutions. Requires knowledge of Linux, networking, virtualization, cloud technologies, and basic scripting.

Lead the design and implementation of secure network and enterprise application solutions for Zero Trust products. Establish security standards, assess technologies, address architecture and implementation risks, collaborate on audits and penetration testing, review secure code in C, C++, Python, and Go, and mentor engineers. The role requires expertise in networking, VPNs, cloud platforms, identity and access management, NIST, FedRAMP, and secure appliance development.

Lead and grow Akamai's channel partner ecosystem in India by defining strategy, recruiting and enabling partners, managing partner relationships and revenue execution across security, delivery and compute solutions. Manage a team, drive channel marketing and enablement, resolve channel conflicts, ensure service delivery and billing, and meet new customer and product sales targets.

Identify and qualify enterprise leads through outbound and inbound prospecting, research, phone/email/social engagement, and use CRM and sales engagement tools to generate sales-ready meetings for account executives and meet quota targets.

Oversee, scale, and optimize high-density AI hardware infrastructure across regional data centers. Build Python automation and infrastructure-as-code tooling, integrate incident workflows, develop telemetry pipelines and monitoring dashboards, and improve reliability across private cloud, bare-metal, and virtualized environments. Lead on-call incident response, runbooks, post-mortems, service rollouts, vendor coordination, and field technician activities while driving uptime, performance, and operational readiness.

Drive enterprise sales growth for Akamai Cloud Infrastructure Services by developing new accounts, building strategic account plans, advising executive stakeholders, and identifying cloud, compute, and AI workload opportunities. Lead consultative cross-selling and upselling, manage complex infrastructure deals, forecast pipelines, negotiate contracts, and coordinate enterprise sales teams and technical specialists through close and adoption.

Sell Akamai services through partner ecosystem to Growth & Commercial customers across US and Canada. Build partner relationships, develop pipeline, execute business plans, drive cross-sell/upsell, align partner and internal sales teams, and collaborate with sales engineers, finance, and product to close consultative security and cloud-focused opportunities.

Lead development of observability products (metrics, dashboards, alerts, APIs) by defining requirements, writing PRDs, engaging customers, prioritizing roadmap, and driving cross-functional launches and EOL consolidation.

Sell Akamai solutions to major accounts in North India by building territory plans, developing partner ecosystems, engaging C-levels, driving new customer acquisition, managing pipeline and contract negotiations to maximize bookings and logos.