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Senior Security Engineer- Hybrid

Israel(Remote)

Job Description

Do you love exploring and researching new technologies, attacks, and vulnerabilities?

Do you want to build the next generation of bleeding-edge AI tools that empower our InfoSec experts and entire company?

Join our Information Security Team!

Akamai's Information Security group is responsible for safeguarding Akamai, its customers, and the Internet worldwide. Within this group, our team acts as an innovation engine. We build custom, AI-driven tools, services, and automation platforms that are utilized across the entire organization, empowering both our internal security practitioners and broader engineering teams to defend the global internet and secure our enterprise.

Shape Internet Security

In this role, your solutions and expertise will have a company-wide impact. You will build cutting-edge software that solves complex pain points, actively support security efforts, and collaborate directly with teams across Akamai to reduce our overall attack surface.

As a Senior Security Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Designing, developing, testing, and deploying scalable security tools adopted across the organization.
• Acting as a technical resource during security incidents to analyze threats and deploy scripts.
• Researching and integrating AI and machine learning to automate workflows and enhance security.
• Partnering with diverse teams to understand operational environments and engineer customized solutions.
• Managing, documenting, and upgrading internal security tools to address evolving business needs.
• Staying at the forefront of InfoSec and AI landscapes to upskill the team.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Possess at least 4 years of experience in cybersecurity and software engineering.
• Demonstrate proficiency writing complex scripts and production-grade tools using one or more of the following languages: Python, Go, Rust, Bash, Groovy.
• Have to apply AI (LLM) technologies to solve security problems.
• Understand threat modeling, attack vectors, and incident response to neutralize modern threats.
• Manage Jenkins pipelines, Git workflows, and infrastructure tooling like Terraform or Ansible.
• Communicate effectively with a diverse user base to define technical needs.

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.

Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:

Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.

Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.

Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.

AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.

We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

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Job Info

• Job Identification3462
• Posting Date07/06/2026, 10:29 AM
• LocationsAkamai Technologies Israel Ltd., Tel Aviv, 6744130, IL(Remote)

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