Senior Tech Marketing Engineer: AI & Distributed Networking

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Frankfort (KY); 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 story, building, benchmarking, and demonstrating on the platform, turning learnings into content for engineers and technical decision makers. You will own the technical narrative, develop demos and reference architectures, and publish deep-dive blogs and talks to support the evolving AI

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant experience in technical marketing, solutions or sales engineering, network engineering, cloud infrastructure, CDN, content delivery, networking, edge, AI infrastructure or adjacent technologies.
• Hands-on with the delivery stack: HTTP/2/3, QUIC, TLS, DNS, caching, routing and peering fundamentals, APIs, and tooling to measure them; scripting or automation skills.
• Understanding of modern application architectures and how AI changes traffic patterns and infrastructure needs.
• Comfort with AI APIs and concepts such as inference, tokens, streaming, model endpoints and agents.
• Direct experience building or operating AI infrastructure.
• Experience designing and running defensible performance benchmarks.
• Experience building demos and reference architectures for technical audiences.
• Able to engage with network engineers on peering, route optimization, performance, and post-quantum cryptography while collaborating with developers and architects.

Responsibilities

• Implementing Akamai delivery and performance products hands-on, building and maintaining live configurations and demo environments that show real capabilities on real traffic, including emerging AI application patterns
• Designing and running reproducible benchmarking with documented, defensible methodology to substantiate Akamai's performance advantages
• Building reference architectures and demos for modern applications and AI workloads, including AI inference APIs, streaming responses, agent interactions, and globally distributed applications
• Owning the technical answer to what makes Akamai's distributed network and content delivery platform genuinely differentiated
• Working with engineering to build deep knowledge of network optimization, carrier and telco peering, route optimization, post quantum cryptography, developer experience, performance, and AI-related patterns
• Exploring AI traffic behavior across distributed infrastructure and translating findings into practical guidance for customers and field teams
• Producing ongoing technical thought leadership: deep-dive blogs, benchmark reports, reference architectures, conference talks and demos
• Partnering with product marketing to ground positioning, messaging, and Akamai's evolving AI story in technical reality

Skills

HTTP/2 & HTTP/3

QUIC

TLS

DNS

Caching

Routing & peering

APIs

Scripting/Automation

Technical writing

Public speaking

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 story, building, benchmarking, and demonstrating on the platform, turning learnings into content for engineers and technical decision makers. You will own the technical narrative, develop demos and reference architectures, and publish deep-dive blogs and talks to support the evolving AI