Senior Technical Marketing Engineer- API Security

Akamai•Cambridge, MA

4d•$119,600 - $215,400

About The Position

This role helps customers, partners, and internal teams understand and evaluate Akamai's API, AI, and agentic security solutions through technically credible demonstrations, content, enablement, and thought leadership. By building and operating products in practical environments, you will help showcase how Akamai protects modern applications, APIs, and agent-driven interactions. As the technical voice of the Security Product Marketing team, you will develop implementation-level expertise in Akamai's API Security portfolio and emerging AI and agent security capabilities. Working across Product Marketing, Product Management, Engineering, and Solution Engineering, you will translate hands-on product knowledge into clear technical positioning, proof, demonstrations, and reusable assets. You will provide the technical depth, evidence, validation, and demonstrations that make product narratives, launches, campaigns, and sales programs credible with technical buyers.

Requirements

8 years of relevant experience in a hands-on role such as Technical Marketing Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Solutions Architect, Security Engineer, Systems Engineer, DevOps or Platform Engineer, or Technical Product Manager including customer-facing or market-facing experience and a Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent
Bringing hands-on experience or strong working knowledge of AI agents, large language model (LLM) application security, agent discovery, agent-to-tool and agent-to-API interactions
Demonstrating expertise in API Security, Web Application and API Protection (WAAP), the OWASP API Security Top 10, API gateways, runtime security, and traffic analysis
Demonstrating the ability to independently deploy, configure, operate, and troubleshoot security, cloud, or application infrastructure
Building compelling demonstrations, proof-of-concept environments, hands-on labs, and technical content that simplify complex security concepts and connect product capabilities to customer challenges
Communicating complex technical information effectively to security practitioners, architects, executives, analysts, and cross-functional teams, applying curiosity, sound judgement, and independent problem-solving in rapidly evolving environments

Responsibilities

Deploying, configuring, and operating Akamai security products in lab and production like environments to understand and document capabilities, limitations, integration requirements, and configuration patterns
Building and maintaining proof-of-concept environments, reference architectures, API attack simulations, and agentic workflow scenarios that demonstrate real-world security challenges
Creating reusable product demonstrations, hands-on labs, workshops, technical training, and proof-of-concept playbooks for customers, partners, and field teams
Partnering with Product Marketing to translate product capabilities into technical positioning, solution briefs, launch and campaign content, sales narratives, and other assets for technical buyers, including helping launch new products and capabilities
Developing technical blogs, white papers, implementation guides, integration documentation, and architecture content for API Security, Application Security, and AI and agent security solutions
Reviewing and validating technical claims in messaging, sales enablement, launch materials, and analyst content to ensure they are accurate, defensible, and supported by product capabilities
Delivering product demonstrations, technical-buyer briefings, analyst technical deep dives, presentations, and workshops for customers, partners, internal stakeholders, security practitioner communities, and select industry events
Collaborating with Product Management, Engineering, and Solution Engineering to understand the roadmap, test product capabilities and limits, and translate customer and field feedback into actionable product input