Senior Technical Marketing Engineer- API Security

About the role

Help organizations secure APIs, AI applications, and agentic systems that power modern business. Turn hands-on security expertise into credible technical content, demonstrations, and product marketing programs.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and operate Akamai security products in lab and production environments to understand and document capabilities, limitations, integration requirements, and configuration patterns.
• Create and maintain proof-of-concept environments, reference architectures, API attack simulations, and agentic workflow scenarios that demonstrate real-world security challenges.
• Create reusable product demonstrations, hands-on labs, workshops, technical training, and proof-of-concept playbooks for customers, partners, and field teams.
• 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.
• Develop technical blogs, white papers, implementation guides, integration documentation, and architecture content for API Security, Application Security, and AI and agent security solutions.
• Review and validate technical claims in messaging, sales enablement, launch materials, and analyst content to ensure they are accurate, defensible, and supported by product capabilities.
• Deliver product demonstrations, technical-buyer briefings, analyst technical deep dives, presentations, and workshops for customers, partners, internal stakeholders, security practitioner communities, and select industry events.
• Collaborate 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.

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.
• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Strong working knowledge of AI agents, large language model (LLM) application security, agent discovery, agent-to-tool and agent-to-API interactions.
• Expertise in API Security, Web Application and API Protection (WAAP), the OWASP API Security Top 10, API gateways, runtime security, and traffic analysis.
• Ability to independently deploy, configure, operate, and troubleshoot security, cloud, or application infrastructure.
• Experience in creating compelling demonstrations, proof-of-concept environments, hands-on labs, and technical content that simplify complex security concepts and connect product capabilities to customer challenges.
• Effective communication of complex technical information to security practitioners, architects, executives, analysts, and cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Expertise in API Security, Web Application and API Protection (WAAP), the OWASP API Security Top 10, API gateways, runtime security, and traffic analysis.
• Ability to independently deploy, configure, operate, and troubleshoot security, cloud, or application infrastructure.
• Experience in creating compelling demonstrations, proof-of-concept environments, hands-on labs, and technical content that simplify complex security concepts and connect product capabilities to customer challenges.
• Effective communication of complex technical information to security practitioners, architects, executives, analysts, and cross-functional teams.

Skills

• Technical writing and content creation.
• Product management and marketing.
• Technical troubleshooting and problem-solving.
• Customer engagement and relationship management.
• Technical presentation and briefing skills.

Benefits

• 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.

Pay

• Base salary range: $119,600 - $215,400/year.

Schedule

• Full-time position.