Senior Security Researcher

🕒 June 3

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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

• Designing, building, and validating new detections across large-scale customer telemetry, transforming threat research into impactful results. • Building and deploying AI agents for independent investigation workflows and detection engineering pipelines, incorporating context management, tool orchestration, and multi-step reasoning. • Evaluating and iterating on detection quality - measuring false positive rates, building benchmarks, and establishing feedback loops that continuously improve accuracy. • Analyzing diverse telemetry including network connections, Active Directory, cloud activity, endpoint data (Windows/Linux), segmentation policies, and vulnerability exposure to identify threats and anomalies. • Leading key research initiatives and proof-of-concepts, shaping Hunt's detection and analytics platform's strategic direction. • Translating cutting-edge research into clear, actionable recommendations and effectively communicating findings to customers and stakeholders.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity research, detection engineering, threat hunting, or incident response (including military experience). • Demonstrate day-to-day use of AI coding agents and LLM-based development workflows as a core part of your engineering and research practice. • Design, test, and tune detections using attacker behavior insights and system telemetry through practical detection engineering experience. • Have solid understanding of networking protocols and technologies (TCP/IP, DNS, SMB, HTTP/S, etc.). • Be familiar with attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and the MITRE ATT&CK framework. • Demonstrate Python and SQL expertise with experience handling extensive security data in cloud data warehouses like BigQuery.

🏖️ Benefits

• We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. • FlexBase adapts to your job's needs. • Exceptional workplace experience.