Principal Security Engineer

🕒 June 3

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $132.1k - $237.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Akamai Technologies

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5001 - 10000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2001-07

Cloud Computing • Cybersecurity • Content Delivery

Akamai Technologies is a leading cloud services provider that specializes in delivering security, cloud computing, and content delivery solutions. It offers a range of services such as API security, DDoS protection, and performance optimization for web applications, ensuring secure and reliable user experiences. With a robust global infrastructure, Akamai empowers businesses to streamline their digital presence while safeguarding against various cyber threats and enhancing application performance.

📋 Description

• Defining and owning the security architecture spanning Kubernetes infrastructure, inference runtimes, control plane APIs, and model lifecycle pipelines • Establishing threat models, security standards, and hardening guidelines across all platform teams and ensuring consistent adoption through reviews and automated enforcement • Leading security design reviews for critical systems including model serving environments, multi-tenant isolation, authentication and authorization frameworks, and data handling pipelines • Driving AI-specific security initiatives including defense against prompt injection, model extraction, adversarial inputs, data poisoning, and model supply chain attacks • Owning compliance readiness for regulatory frameworks (FedRAMP, SOC 2, GDPR), and emerging AI governance standards, partnering with legal and compliance teams • Developing and maturing the platform's security incident response capabilities including detection, investigation, and remediation playbooks for both traditional and AI-specific threats • Collaborating with Akamai's broader security organization to align inference platform security practices with enterprise standards and share learnings across product lines

🎯 Requirements

• 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Security Engineering, or a related field • Deep expertise across application security, infrastructure security, and cloud-native security with experience as a security technical lead or architect • Hands-on experience with AI/ML security challenges including model serving attack surfaces, prompt injection mitigation, and adversarial robustness • Proven ability to define security architecture and threat models for complex distributed systems spanning multiple engineering teams • Experience with compliance frameworks and the ability to translate regulatory requirements into engineering controls • Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar languages with experience building security tooling, automation, or detection systems.

🏖️ Benefits

• industry-leading benefits including healthcare • 401K savings plan • company holidays • vacation (in the form of PTO) • sick time • family friendly benefits including parental leave • employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness • Eligibility requirements apply.