Senior Security Engineer

About the Role

Are you excited to work with innovative security products? Are you a security engineer who enjoys building robust defenses to help organizations stay safe? Join Akamai Guardicore (Enterprise Security Group) Akamai ExAR, within Akamai's Enterprise Security Group, focuses on advanced detection, threat intelligence, and proactive defense operations. Professionals passionate about building defenses, transforming research insights into actionable technical solutions, and directly supporting customers against active threats will thrive. Partner with the best You will serve as the technical bridge between our security research innovations and our global engineering operations. You will play a critical role in our customer-facing operations, delivering high-tier human support for Akamai ExAR. Acting as a trusted technical partner to our clients during advanced security investigations and critical events. As a Security Engineer Senior, you will be responsible for: Investigating complex cyber-attacks to uncover adversary behaviors and support customer defenses. Designing and monitoring production-grade code for new detection methodologies across large-scale telemetry. Triaging high-severity incidents, presenting investigation findings, and providing advanced technical support to customers. Analyzing AI-generated detections and partnering with researchers to continuously refine their effectiveness. Applying actionable Threat Intelligence to identify tactical shifts and proactively enhance defensive coverage Working closely with globally dispersed teams to ensure seamless operational continuity and knowledge sharing. Do what you love To be successful in this role you will: Have 5+ years of cybersecurity experience spanning security engineering, cloud-native architectures, XDR platforms, and SOC environments Combine investigative intuition with engineering rigor to independently correlate diverse telemetry and disrupt threat actors. Write robust code (e

Requirements & Qualifications

• Strong problem solving foundations, knowledge of modern engineering practices, and interest in technology systems.

Perks & Benefits

• Official mentor support
• verified hiring timeline
• and career progression.