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Lead product strategy and roadmaps for platform security and infrastructure, operationalize secure paved paths, manage lifecycle of core systems, partner with hardware vendors, support internal engineering teams, and develop business and financial models to guide technical debt decisions, monitoring, and maintenance processes.

Lead product strategy and roadmap for Akamai's core compute offerings, bridging hardware and developer experiences. Gather and document technical requirements, prioritize features, analyze metrics for KPIs and profitability, collaborate cross-functionally, and engage customers and partners to drive compute platform adoption and improvements.

Design and implement platform security solutions across deployments, databases, and control planes. Deliver secure, scalable code, support full product lifecycle, collaborate with Product/Architecture/DevOps/InfoSec, and resolve complex platform and product security challenges.

Designs and guides scalable, reliable, secure software architecture for Akamai’s global network operations systems. Responsibilities include developing architectural standards, presenting technical visions, collaborating with product and engineering teams, ensuring comprehensive testing and quality practices, and researching emerging network operations and automation technologies. The role requires extensive distributed systems architecture experience and software development lifecycle knowledge in Unix/Linux environments.

Lead and grow engineering teams responsible for the Akamai Compute integration layer. Define strategy and roadmap for customer-facing APIs and backend orchestration, drive architecture shifts to container orchestration and modular designs, improve SDLC, reliability, observability, and security, and partner with product, SRE, and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure platform services.

As a Senior Product Support Engineer, you'll provide escalation support for security products, focusing on performance, reliability, and security for customers using Akamai's Zero Trust platform.

Drive and exceed sales targets for API security solutions by building customer relationships, qualifying opportunities, and maintaining accurate forecasts. Collaborate with Sales Engineers, execute channel-first sales motions, and sell technology into commercial and enterprise accounts. Leverage experience with digital cybersecurity, API Gateway, and cloud providers to navigate complex organizations and consistently meet quotas.

Provide advanced technical support for enterprise customers, diagnose and resolve network security, OS (Linux/Windows) and virtualization issues, deploy software and networking equipment, maintain high customer satisfaction, collaborate with internal teams, and occasionally travel onsite while based in Cambridge, MA or Dallas, TX.

Serve as a technical partner-facing presales lead: build trusted partner relationships, enable partners to resell and service Akamai security products, support channel sales to grow revenue, customize sales plays and use cases, represent partner needs to product/marketing/services, and present technical solutions to diverse audiences.

Lead and execute complex R&D transformation programs across Cloud Technology Group. Manage TPMs, analysts, and trainers to define roadmaps, standardize PDLC/SDLC practices, optimize portfolio management, track engineering productivity metrics, present to executives, drive change management, and scale tooling and operational practices while fostering an inclusive culture.