Base Salary
$189k - $255k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and automate the CDN/WAF paved road for onboarding public endpoints to Akamai and optimizing edge configurations.
- Engineer and tune WAF, bot-management, client-reputation, and rate-control policies while balancing security and false-positive risk.
- Design, build, deploy, and support self-service applications, APIs, and UIs for edge, DNS, and certificate workflows.
- Own DNS and SSL/TLS certificate lifecycles, including mTLS, CDN, and network-connectivity solutions.
- Troubleshoot full packet paths across CDN origins, DNS, TLS, transit routing, and cloud networks, including packet captures.
- Automate compliance and cost reporting or remediation and improve Cloud Platform service performance.
- Build agentic and self-service tooling that encodes operational knowledge into reusable patterns.
- Provide 24x7 incident response for critical edge and Platform Services, including off-hours migrations and cutovers.
- Partner with Akamai and internal teams on operational support models and escalation paths.
- Mentor engineers, influence technical direction, and coach teams on reliable agent-executable work decomposition.
Requirements
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent work-related experience.
- Deep hands-on experience with Akamai Property Manager/Ion, Kona, App & API Protector, Bot Manager, Client Reputation, CPS certificates, EdgeWorkers, SiteShield, and PAPI/{OPEN} APIs.
- Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP/2, DNS, Route 53, delegation, CNAME chains, split-horizon DNS, SSL/TLS, mTLS, CDN origin and edge routing, VPN, AWS Transit Gateway/VPC routing, BGP, and SSH.
- Hands-on software engineering experience with Python, Golang, React, and Java, including ownership of APIs, UIs, and MSaaS services.
- Experience with CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform, CodeBuild, and Jenkins, plus understanding of GitOps.
- Hands-on AWS experience with API Gateway, CloudFront, ACM, ALB/NLB, Lambda, WAFv2, and IAM; Google GCP and Microsoft Azure knowledge preferred.
- Ability to build and orchestrate AI agents and self-service tooling, including MCP servers and skills, and review AI-generated output to peer-code quality standards.
- Experience operating production support and on-call services with formal change management, incident RCA, and customer-facing communication.
- Staff-level candidates must be able to own technical vision across multiple teams, build closed-loop agentic workflows, and drive operational excellence and quality guardrails.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package with pay-for-performance rewards, potential cash bonus, equity rewards, and benefits according to applicable plans and programs.
- Expected base pay range of $188,500-$255,000 for San Diego; pay varies by knowledge, skills, experience, and work location.
- The role includes 24x7 incident-response responsibilities and occasional off-hours migration and cutover windows.
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