Senior Security Architect, Technology Architecture

Does creating products that power and protect life online excite you?

Are you interested in product design and innovation at a leading technology organization?

Join our world-class Security Technology Group

Our team falls under the Security Technology Group, driving the future of Bot and Abuse Protection. We help thousands of enterprises globally to protect their websites and secure their transactions over the Internet. We are a Fortune 1000 company and a Gartner-recognized web security market leader. Our company delivers best in class security products and experiences to our customers.

You'll create end-to-end architecture and high-level designs for new security products and features. These designs span configuration, reporting, and runtime aspects of the system, including data analytics and attack detection. This will play a role in translating requirements into bold architecture.

As a Senior Product Architect, you will be responsible for:

Collaborating with product management to understand and finalize the requirements so they fit our technology and bring value to our customers

Defining the end-to-end architecture and the set of functionality required in new or existing products and systems to realize the requirements

Guiding the engineering teams as they work on the detailed designs and implementation

Have 12 years of relevant software experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or its equivalent

Have experience designing large-scale, low-latency, web-based distributed systems

Bring knowledge of big data analytics, machine learning algorithms, and/or the appropriate use of AI in software solutions

Have a big picture and end-to-end vision when designing new features and thoroughly understand SDLC and web technologies

Be passionate about building features that will be usable for our customers and help solve their problems

Be proactive in researching systems and issues, document solutions thoroughly, and have an interest in learning new technologies

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.

Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.

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.

we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). 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; Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.