Senior Security Researcher

About the Role: Senior Security Researcher at Akamai Technologies

Are you excited 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, which 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 top enterprises across the globe.

Join our Security Research Team

As a member of our research team, you will investigate emerging attack surfaces across operating systems and modern technologies. You will reverse engineer complex software, discover vulnerabilities, and develop original research. Researchers are encouraged to explore new ideas and transform promising findings into published research shared with the global security community.

In This Role You Will Be

• Leading end-to-end research projects - from idea generation, through discovery and exploitation, to publication.
• Conducting deep security research across operating systems, cloud environments, enterprise software, and emerging technologies.
• Developing proof-of-concepts and research tools.
• Leveraging AI to scale research workflow.
• Publishing research via technical blogs, whitepapers, and top-tier conferences.
• Collaborating with detection and product teams to translate research into security capabilities.

Do What You Love

To be successful as a Senior Security Researcher, you will:

• Have 5+ years of experience in security research, vulnerability discovery, exploitation, or reverse engineering.
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of OS internals.
• Have hands-on experience with reverse engineering and debugging tools (e.g., IDA, Ghidra, WinDbg) and AI-assisted research tools.
• Be capable of independently leading complex research projects from concept to publication.
• Demonstrate exceptional analytical abilities and advanced problem-solving expertise.
• Be able to communicate complex technical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Have a track record of published research (e.g., blogs, CVEs, conference talks).

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is designed to create the best workplace. It gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, helping Akamai find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

Learn what makes Akamai a great place to work

At Akamai, we power and protect life online, solving the toughest challenges together. We're curious, innovative, collaborative, and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and believe we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

Benefits

Akamai provides opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future, covering your health, finances, family, time at work, and time pursuing other endeavors.

Key skills/competency

• Vulnerability Research
• Reverse Engineering
• OS Internals
• Exploit Development
• Threat Intelligence
• Cloud Security
• Enterprise Security
• AI in Security
• Technical Writing
• Problem Solving