Security Architect, Product Security – Hybrid & AI-Driven

Akamai; United States; On-site; USD 146,000 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai is seeking a Security Architect for the Product Security team. You will shape security for Akamai’s products by partnering with development and infrastructure teams to design, review, and remediate security across the platform.

You’ll lead design reviews, guide incident responses, and help ensure secure AI usage at scale. This role requires broad security expertise, effective communication across global teams, and a passion for building safer, resilient systems.

Qualifications

• Experience in security architecture in a large, global environment (identifying architectural security weaknesses at the application, OS, and network level).
• Be current with the latest security technologies, attack techniques, and vulnerabilities.
• Remediate common vulnerabilities and propose custom solutions based on architecture.
• Breadth of security knowledge across cloud, network, cryptography, etc.
• Experience with threat modeling or hazard-analysis frameworks (STAMP, STRIDE).
• Communicate and collaborate with a worldwide team and explain complex security terms to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Performing security-focused design reviews of applications, systems and networks across a wide range of products, including security, CDN and cloud computing.
• Partnering with development and infrastructure teams across the organization to assist with remediation of identified issues.
• Working collaboratively with product development teams on secure design and development choices.
• Providing guidance and answering questions about security practices.
• Serving as a subject matter expert during incidents and remediation projects.
• Identifying the appropriate tools and processes for ensuring that products are meeting security and compliance requirements.
• Integrating responsible use of AI into your workflow and ensuring that the company's use both internally and its products, are secured.

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modeling

Cloud security

Network security

Cryptography

Security incident response

Communication

Tools

Security tooling

Incident response tooling

Job description

Akamai is seeking a Security Architect for the Product Security team. You will shape security for Akamai’s products by partnering with development and infrastructure teams to design, review, and remediate security across the platform.

You’ll lead design reviews, guide incident responses, and help ensure secure AI usage at scale. This role requires broad security expertise, effective communication across global teams, and a passion for building safer, resilient systems.