Senior Technical Marketing Engineer- API Security

Akamai Technologies; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K plan

Job summary

Akamai Technologies is seeking a Technical Marketing Engineer to translate hands-on security expertise into credible content, demonstrations, and product marketing programs. You'll deploy Akamai security products, build lab environments, and create repeatable technical assets for customers and partners to understand API, AI, and agent security challenges.

You will collaborate with Product Marketing, Product Management, Engineering, and Solution Engineering to shape messaging, develop

Qualifications

• 8 years of hands-on experience in technical marketing, solutions engineering, or security engineering roles with customer-facing responsibilities.
• Hands-on knowledge of AI agents, LLM security, and agent-to-API interactions is preferred.
• Expertise in API Security, WAAP, and related security concepts is expected.
• Ability to deploy, configure, operate, and troubleshoot security infrastructure in cloud or on-prem environments.
• Ability to create demonstrations, labs, and technical content that connects product capabilities to customer challenges.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and operate Akamai security products in lab and production-like environments.
• Build PoC environments, reference architectures, API attack simulations, and agentic workflow scenarios.
• Create reusable demonstrations, labs, workshops, and technical training materials.
• Translate product capabilities into technical positioning, briefs, and sales assets for technical buyers.
• Develop technical blogs, white papers, integration guides, and architecture content.
• Review and validate technical claims in messaging and launch materials.
• Deliver product demos, technical briefings, and workshops for customers, partners, and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Solution Engineering on roadmaps and feedback.

Skills

AI agent security

Technical marketing engineering

Customer-facing experience

Cloud security infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Job Description

Would you like to help organizations secure the APIs, AI applications, and agentic systems that power modern business?

Are you excited about turning hands-on security expertise into credible technical content, demonstrations, and product marketing programs?

Be Part of Our Security Product Marketing Team

As APIs and AI agents transform how digital experiences and business processes are built, they also expand the attack surface and introduce new security risks. This role helps customers, partners, and internal teams understand and evaluate Akamai's API, AI, and agentic security solutions through technically credible demonstrations, content, enablement, and thought leadership. By building and operating products in practical environments, you will help showcase how Akamai protects modern applications, APIs, and agent-driven interactions.

Partner with the best

As the technical voice of the Security Product Marketing team, you will develop implementation-level expertise in Akamai's API Security portfolio and emerging AI and agent security capabilities. Working across Product Marketing, Product Management, Engineering, and Solution Engineering, you will translate hands-on product knowledge into clear technical positioning, proof, demonstrations, and reusable assets. You will provide the technical depth, evidence, validation, and demonstrations that make product narratives, launches, campaigns, and sales programs credible with technical buyers.

As a Technical Marketing Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Deploying, configuring, and operating Akamai security products in lab and production-like environments to understand and document capabilities, limitations, integration requirements, and configuration patterns
• Building and maintaining proof-of-concept environments, reference architectures, API attack simulations, and agentic workflow scenarios that demonstrate real-world security challenges
• Creating reusable product demonstrations, hands-on labs, workshops, technical training, and proof-of-concept playbooks for customers, partners, and field teams
• Partnering with Product Marketing to translate product capabilities into technical positioning, solution briefs, launch and campaign content, sales narratives, and other assets for technical buyers, including helping launch new products and capabilities
• Developing technical blogs, white papers, implementation guides, integration documentation, and architecture content for API Security, Application Security, and AI and agent security solutions
• Reviewing and validating technical claims in messaging, sales enablement, launch materials, and analyst content to ensure they are accurate, defensible, and supported by product capabilities
• Delivering product demonstrations, technical-buyer briefings, analyst technical deep dives, presentations, and workshops for customers, partners, internal stakeholders, security practitioner communities, and select industry events
• Collaborating with Product Management, Engineering, and Solution Engineering to understand the roadmap, test product capabilities and limits, and translate customer and field feedback into actionable product input

Do What You Love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 8 years of relevant experience in a hands-on role such as Technical Marketing Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Solutions Architect, Security Engineer, Systems Engineer, DevOps or Platform Engineer, or Technical Product Manager including customer-facing or market-facing experience and a Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent
• Bring hands-on experience or strong working knowledge of AI agents, large language model (LLM) application security, agent discovery, agent-to-tool and agent-to-API interactions
• Demonstrate expertise in API Security, Web Application and API Protection (WAAP), the OWASP API Security Top 10, API gateways, runtime security, and traffic analysis
• Demonstrate the ability to independently deploy, configure, operate, and troubleshoot security, cloud, or application infrastructure
• Build compelling demonstrations, proof-of-concept environments, hands-on labs, and technical content that simplify complex security concepts and connect product capabilities to customer challenges
• Communicate complex technical information effectively to security practitioners, architects, executives, analysts, and cross-functional teams, applying curiosity, sound judgement, and independent problem-solving in rapidly evolving environments

Build your career at Akamai

Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We’re doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn, grow and have a meaningful impact. With our company moving so fast, it’s important that you’re able to build new skills, explore new roles, and try out different opportunities. There are so many different ways to build your career at Akamai, and we want to support you as much as possible. We have all kinds of development opportunities available, from programs such as GROW and Mentoring, to internal events like the APEX Expo and tools such as Linkedin Learning, all to help you expand your knowledge and experience here.

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Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $119,600 - $215,400/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.