Are you excited about detecting and mitigating the latest cyber & fraud attacks?
Do you love researching and reverse-engineering real-world attacks?
Join our Adversarial Threat Research Team!
As a Security Researcher, you will focus on analyzing automated threats targeting web applications and mobile ecosystems. You will reverse-engineer sophisticated bot frameworks ranging from browser extensions and custom modified Chromium builds to mobile automation tools and actively maintain and evolve the Akamai Mobile SDK to improve signal generation, anti-tampering defenses, and automated bot detection.
Shape internet security
As a Security Researcher, you will dissect suspicious client apps, analyze custom binaries, and build defenses impacting millions daily. You will advance your expertise in browser fingerprinting, custom Chromium builds, extension security, mobile SDKs, and anti-bot mitigation. Your findings and detections will directly shape our roadmap and strengthen Akamai's defenses against evasive automated threats.
As a Security Researcher, you will be responsible for:
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
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.
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