Senior Tech Marketing Engineer — AI & Distributed Networking

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Cheyenne (WY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer for Distributed Networking, Content Delivery, and AI.

You will be the technical proof engine behind Akamai's delivery and performance narrative, building live demos on the platform, benchmarking latency or throughput, and translating learnings into compelling content for engineers, architects, and technical decision makers. You will own the technical content, collaborate with engineering, and craft reference architectures

Qualifications

• 6+ years in technical marketing, solutions or sales engineering, network engineering, cloud infrastructure, CDN, content delivery, edge, AI infra or adjacent technologies.
• Hands-on delivery stack experience with HTTP/2, HTTP/3, QUIC, TLS, DNS, caching, routing and peering, APIs and automation tooling.
• Experience with modern application architectures and AI traffic patterns.
• Comfort working with AI APIs, tokens, inference, streaming and agents.
• Direct experience building or operating AI infrastructure and reference architectures.

Responsibilities

• Implement Akamai delivery and performance products hands-on, building live configurations and demos on real traffic.
• Design and run reproducible benchmarking with defensible methodology to show Akamai performance advantages.
• Build reference architectures and demos for modern apps and AI workloads.
• Own the technical answer to Akamai's differentiators in distributed networking and content delivery amid AI changes.
• Collaborate with engineering to deepen knowledge of network optimization, peering, route optimization and post-quantum crypto.
• Translate AI traffic findings into practical guidance for customers and field teams.
• Produce a cadence of technical thought leadership: blogs, benchmark reports, reference architectures and demos.
• Partner with product marketing to ground positioning and AI storytelling in reality.

Skills

HTTP/2

HTTP/3

QUIC

TLS

DNS

Caching

Routing & Peering

APIs

Scripting / Automation

AI Infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer for Distributed Networking, Content Delivery, and AI.

You will be the technical proof engine behind Akamai's delivery and performance narrative, building live demos on the platform, benchmarking latency or throughput, and translating learnings into compelling content for engineers, architects, and technical decision makers. You will own the technical content, collaborate with engineering, and craft reference architectures