Penetration Tester

Akamai Technologies
Poland
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: CybersecuritySkills: ["Collaboration","Communication","Problem-solving","Teamwork","Self-learning"]

Seeking an experienced penetration tester to join Akamai’s Product Security Penetration Testing team. You’ll perform application, network, mobile and cloud assessments, collaborate with product teams to define scopes, identify vulnerabilities, and help remediate findings across Akamai products while leveraging tools and AI-driven techniques in a global security-focused environment.

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Akamai Technologies
Akamai Technologies
3 months ago

Penetration Tester

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Job Summary

Seeking an experienced penetration tester to join Akamai’s Product Security Penetration Testing team. You’ll perform application, network, mobile and cloud assessments, collaborate with product teams to define scopes, identify vulnerabilities, and help remediate findings across Akamai products while leveraging tools and AI-driven techniques in a global security-focused environment.
Location: Poland
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Cybersecurity

Key Responsibilities

  • •Collaborate with security and product teams to identify testing targets, define assessment scopes, and perform white-box penetration testing on Akamai products.
  • •Assess risk vulnerabilities, communicate vulnerabilities to technical and non-technical audiences, and provide remediation guidance to developers.
  • •Retest known vulnerabilities to validate fixes.
  • •Develop custom tools as needed to effectively test Akamai products.
  • •Support Akamai's bug bounty programs by triaging researcher submissions and coordinating remediation with internal teams.

Key Requirements

  • •Have relevant experience leading and performing penetration tests and/or red team engagements.
  • •Experience testing multiple target types (web, mobile, client applications, cloud and networks).
  • •Be proficient in at least one programming language and understand common vulnerabilities, attack vectors and frameworks.
  • •Know how to remediate common vulnerabilities and propose custom solutions based on application architecture.
  • •Experience using BurpSuite and IDAPro and techniques like fuzzing; able to leverage AI/LLMs to enhance analysis and automation.
Skills:CollaborationCommunicationProblem-solvingTeamworkSelf-learning
Languages:English
Tech Stack:BurpSuiteIDAProFuzzingAILLMs

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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