Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Distributed Networking & Content Delivery

Akamai Technologies
Cambridge, United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 119,600 - 215,400 annuallyFunction: Marketing & GrowthExperience: 6+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Technical writing","Public speaking","Evidence-based problem solving","Benchmarking rigor"]

Build and demonstrate Akamai’s delivery and performance capabilities hands-on, using live configurations and real traffic rather than slideware. Design and run reproducible, defensible performance benchmarks validated by third-party measurement, and translate results into reference architectures, demos, and technical thought leadership. Partner closely with engineering and product marketing to keep the technical story current and to ground positioning and messaging in measurable differentiation across networking, content delivery, and edge performance.

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Akamai Technologies
Akamai Technologies
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Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Distributed Networking & Content Delivery

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Job Summary

Build and demonstrate Akamai’s delivery and performance capabilities hands-on, using live configurations and real traffic rather than slideware. Design and run reproducible, defensible performance benchmarks validated by third-party measurement, and translate results into reference architectures, demos, and technical thought leadership. Partner closely with engineering and product marketing to keep the technical story current and to ground positioning and messaging in measurable differentiation across networking, content delivery, and edge performance.
Location: Cambridge, United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Marketing & Growth
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Implement Akamai delivery and performance products hands-on by building and maintaining live configurations and demo environments.
  • •Design and run reproducible performance benchmarking with documented methodology, validated with independent third-party measurement.
  • •Author reference architectures and demos that make Akamai’s technical differentiation concrete for customers, field teams, and events.
  • •Maintain the technical “answer” for what genuinely differentiates the distributed network and content delivery platform as it evolves.
  • •Produce and deliver technical thought leadership (blogs, benchmark reports, talks, demos) and partner with product marketing on positioning grounded in technical reality.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 119,600 - 215,400 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health Insurance401kPaid LeaveSick TimeParental LeaveEmployee Assistance

Key Requirements

  • •6 years of relevant experience in technical marketing, solutions or sales engineering, or network engineering (CDN, content delivery, networking, edge, or adjacent infrastructure), plus a Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent.
  • •Hands-on delivery-stack knowledge including HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, QUIC, TLS, DNS, caching, routing, and peering, with tooling to measure and working scripting/automation skills.
  • •Experience designing and running performance benchmarks with a defensible methodology and understanding how to avoid cherry-picked results.
  • •Ability to build demos and reference architectures that technical audiences trust and use.
  • •Comfort engaging on network optimization, carrier/telco peering, route optimization, and post-quantum cryptography, and translating implications for non-technical audiences.
Experience:6+ yearsCDNContent deliveryNetworkingEdge infrastructure
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Technical writingPublic speakingEvidence-based problem solvingBenchmarking rigor
Tech Stack:HTTP/2HTTP/3QUICTLSDNSCachingRoutingPeeringPost-quantum cryptographyScriptingAutomation

Company Brief

Akamai Technologies
Provides a global content delivery network (CDN) and cloud services to improve web and application performance, security, and delivery for enterprises, media companies, and cloud providers.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Cambridge, United States
Founded: 1998
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