Senior Product Architect

Does creating products that power and protect life online excite you?

Are you interested in product design and innovation at a leading technology organization?

Join our world-class Security Technology Group

Our team falls under the Security Technology Group, driving the future of Bot and Abuse Protection. We help thousands of enterprises globally to protect their websites and secure their transactions over the Internet. We are a Fortune 1000 company and a Gartner-recognized web security market leader. Our company delivers best in class security products and experiences to our customers.

Have a direct impact on the future of Internet Security

You'll create end-to-end architecture and high-level designs for new security products and features. These designs span configuration, reporting, and runtime aspects of the system, including data analytics and attack detection. You'll work on different problem statements and dive deep to understand and address complex security pain points. This will play a role in translating requirements into bold architecture.

As a Senior Product Architect, you will be responsible for:

• Collaborating with product management to understand and finalize the requirements so they fit our technology and bring value to our customers
• Defining the end-to-end architecture and the set of functionality required in new or existing products and systems to realize the requirements
• Collaborating with other organizations to realize the non functional needs such as security, availability, and scalability
• Presenting the designs for review
• Guiding the engineering teams as they work on the detailed designs and implementation
• Acquiring and sharing expertise in security products and industry while contributing to their future vision and technical roadmap

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 12 years of relevant software experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or its equivalent
• Have experience designing large-scale, low-latency, web-based distributed systems
• Bring knowledge of big data analytics, machine learning algorithms, and/or the appropriate use of AI in software solutions
• Have a big picture and end-to-end vision when designing new features and thoroughly understand SDLC and web technologies
• Have good interpersonal skills, be comfortable presenting your ideas, and have the ability to collaborate effectively. Handle ambiguity and imperfect information well.
• Be passionate about building features that will be usable for our customers and help solve their problems
• Be proactive in researching systems and issues, document solutions thoroughly, and have an interest in learning new technologies

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.

Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $169,300 - $304,700/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.