Senior Technical Marketing Engineer- API Security

Akamai Technologies
Cambridge, United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 119,600 - 215,400 annuallyFunction: Marketing & GrowthExperience: 8+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving","Judgment","Curiosity"]

Create technical enablement content, demos, and partner-ready assets for Akamai’s API, AI, and agentic security portfolio. Serve as the technical voice for Security Product Marketing, developing implementation-level expertise and translating hands-on product knowledge into credible technical positioning, proof points, labs, workshops, and training. Build and operate proof-of-concept environments and simulations, validate technical claims, and collaborate across Product Marketing, Product Management, Engineering, and Solution Engineering to support technical buyers.

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Senior Technical Marketing Engineer- API Security

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Job Summary

Create technical enablement content, demos, and partner-ready assets for Akamai’s API, AI, and agentic security portfolio. Serve as the technical voice for Security Product Marketing, developing implementation-level expertise and translating hands-on product knowledge into credible technical positioning, proof points, labs, workshops, and training. Build and operate proof-of-concept environments and simulations, validate technical claims, and collaborate across Product Marketing, Product Management, Engineering, and Solution Engineering to support technical buyers.
Location: Cambridge, United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Marketing & Growth
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Deploy, configure, and operate Akamai security products in lab and production-like environments to understand and document capabilities, limitations, and integration/configuration patterns.
  • •Build and maintain proof-of-concept environments, reference architectures, API attack simulations, and agentic workflow scenarios to demonstrate real-world security challenges.
  • •Create reusable product demonstrations, hands-on labs, workshops, technical training, and proof-of-concept playbooks for customers, partners, and field teams.
  • •Partner with Product Marketing to translate product capabilities into technical positioning, solution briefs, launch and campaign content, and sales narratives for technical buyers.
  • •Develop and validate technical content and claims, including blogs, white papers, implementation guides, and integration/architecture documentation, and deliver buyer briefings and workshops.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 119,600 - 215,400 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health Insurance401kParental LeavePensionEspp

Key Requirements

  • •8 years of relevant hands-on experience in a Technical Marketing Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Solutions Architect, Security Engineer, Systems Engineer, DevOps, Platform Engineer, or Technical Product Manager role, plus a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
  • •Hands-on experience or strong working knowledge of AI agents and large language model (LLM) application security, including agent discovery and agent-to-tool/agent-to-API interactions.
  • •Expertise in API Security, Web Application and API Protection (WAAP), the OWASP API Security Top 10, API gateways, runtime security, and traffic analysis.
  • •Ability to independently deploy, configure, operate, and troubleshoot security, cloud, or application infrastructure.
  • •Ability to effectively communicate complex technical information to security practitioners, architects, executives, analysts, and cross-functional teams.
Experience:8+ yearsCybersecurityAPI securityCloud securityAI security
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solvingJudgmentCuriosity
Tech Stack:AI agentsLarge language models (LLM)LLM application securityAgent-to-tool interactionsAgent-to-API interactionsAPI SecurityWeb Application and API Protection (WAAP)OWASP API Security Top 10API gatewaysRuntime securityTraffic analysis

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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