3 days ago
Remote, Japan or Tokyo, JapanSenior
Responsibilities
- Investigate complex cyberattacks, correlate diverse telemetry, and identify adversary behaviors and tactical shifts.
- Design, build, monitor, and maintain production-grade detection code and scalable security data pipelines.
- Triage high-severity incidents and provide advanced technical support during critical customer events.
- Analyze AI-generated detections and collaborate with research teams to improve their effectiveness.
- Translate threat intelligence into automated defensive capabilities using scripting and APIs.
- Present investigation findings and explain AI-driven security insights to customers.
- Implement customer-specific security solutions and collaborate with globally distributed teams for operational continuity and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of cybersecurity experience spanning security engineering, cloud-native architectures, XDR platforms, and SOC environments.
- Strong investigative and engineering skills, including the ability to correlate diverse telemetry and disrupt threat actors independently.
- Experience writing robust code, such as Python, for scalable security data pipelines.
- Deep understanding of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures, MITRE ATT&CK, network protocols, and operating system internals.
- Experience using AI and machine learning to identify anomalies, mitigate threats, or improve detection workflows.
- Ability to use advanced scripting and APIs to automate defenses from threat intelligence.
- Advanced or fluent English and fluent Japanese with business-level English communication skills.
- Ability to explain AI-driven insights and implement customer-specific security solutions.
Benefits
- Akamai supports employee health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work through its benefits program.
- FlexBase supports working from home, in an office, or through a combination of both.
About Akamai
Akamai builds content delivery, cloud security, and edge compute services for enterprises that run consumer and business web, API, and video workloads. The public company (NASDAQ: AKAM), founded in 1998 and headquartered in Cambridge, MA, operates a global CDN and security platform and sells via subscriptions and usage-based services. It expanded into cloud infrastructure by acquiring Linode in 2022, offering IaaS and managed Kubernetes.