Senior Security Engineer - Akamai Inference Cloud - Remote/Poland

Akamai Technologies; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health benefits

Well-being programs

Financial benefits

Flexible work environment

Job summary

Akamai Technologies in Kraków is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to enhance security for AI model execution. Responsibilities include designing security controls for inference execution and conducting security assessments. The ideal candidate has experience in security engineering, specifically with AI/ML architectures, and programming skills in Python, Go, or C++.

The position offers comprehensive health and well-being benefits, with a focus on flexible work environments.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in security engineering focusing on runtime protection, threat modeling, or penetration testing.
• Hands-on experience in application or infrastructure security engineering with deep knowledge of AI/ML inference architectures and associated attack surfaces.
• Experience with container security, supply chain hardening, and secure deployment practices in cloud-native environments.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or C++ with experience building security tooling or automated vulnerability detection.
• Familiarity with security frameworks and compliance standards relevant to AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing runtime security controls that protect inference execution environments against adversarial inputs.
• Conducting threat modeling and security assessments of inference serving frameworks.
• Hardening model serving infrastructure and data integrity.
• Developing automated security testing and monitoring for inference workloads.
• Collaborating to establish security standards across the inference lifecycle.

Skills

Runtime protection

Threat modeling

Penetration testing

Application security

Infrastructure security

AI/ML inference architectures

Container security

Secure deployment practices

Python

Go

C++

Job description

Senior Security Engineer – Inference Execution & Runtimes

The Inference Execution & Runtimes team owns the core inference engine – runtime frameworks, model serving infrastructure, and execution environment that process every request. As part of Akamai’s Cloud Technology Group, you will secure the runtime systems that execute AI models at global scale.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing runtime security controls that protect inference execution environments against adversarial inputs, model extraction, and unauthorized access.
• Conducting threat modeling and security assessments of inference serving frameworks, model loading pipelines, and GPU execution environments.
• Hardening model serving infrastructure, including container isolation, runtime sandboxing, and supply chain integrity for model artifacts and dependencies.
• Developing automated security testing and monitoring for inference workloads to detect anomalous behavior, data exfiltration, and prompt-based attacks.
• Collaborating with platform and model intelligence teams to establish security standards across the full inference lifecycle from model ingestion to production serving.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in security engineering focusing on runtime protection, threat modeling, or penetration testing.
• Hands‑on experience in application or infrastructure security engineering with deep knowledge of AI/ML inference architectures and associated attack surfaces.
• Experience with container security, supply chain hardening, and secure deployment practices in cloud‑native environments.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or C++ with experience building security tooling or automated vulnerability detection.
• Familiarity with security frameworks and compliance standards relevant to AI systems (e.g., OWASP ML Top 10, NIST AI RMF, FedRAMP).

Benefits

Akamai offers comprehensive health, well‑being, financial, and life‑beyond‑work benefits. FlexBase allows employees to choose the work environment that suits them.