Senior Security Researcher - Enterprise Security Research

Job Description Want to lead impactful security research and share your discoveries at leading global conferences? Are you passionate about uncovering attack surfaces, breaking complex software, and presenting your findings at conferences such as Black Hat, DEF CON, and RSAC? Join the Akamai Enterprise Security Group The Akamai Enterprise Security Group focuses on protecting enterprise environments at scale, combining deep network visibility, micro-segmentation, and threat intelligence. Our research is driven by large-scale, real-world data from leading enterprises worldwide. Join our Security Research Team As a member of our research team, you will investigate emerging attack surfaces across operating systems, cloud environments, and modern enterprise technologies.You will reverse-engineer complex software, discover vulnerabilities, and conduct original, publishable research.Researchers are encouraged to explore new ideas and turn promising findings into published research shared with the global security community. As a Senior Security Researcher, You Will Be • Researching of latest threats on Web API technologies, microservice architectures and containerized applications. • Conducting deep security research across operating systems, cloud environments, enterprise software, and emerging technologies • Developing proofs of concept and research tools • Leveraging AI to scale and accelerate the research workflow • Publishing research via technical blogs, whitepapers, and top-tier security conferences • Collaborating with detection and product teams to translate research into security capabilities Do What You Love 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. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like!