Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Distributed Networking & Content Delivery

About the role

Join our innovative product marketing team as a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer for Distributed Networking and Content Delivery. You will be the technical proof engine behind Akamai's delivery and performance story.

Responsibilities

• Implement Akamai delivery and performance products hands-on, building and maintaining live configurations and demo environments that show real capabilities on real traffic, not slideware
• Design and run reproducible benchmarking with documented, defensible methodology, validated against independent third-party measurement, to substantiate Akamai's performance advantages with evidence
• Author reference architectures and demos that make Akamai's technical differentiation concrete for customers, field teams, and events
• Owe the technical answer to what makes Akamai's distributed network and content delivery platform genuinely differentiated, and keep that answer current as the platform evolves
• Work directly with engineering to build working knowledge of network optimization, carrier and telco peering, route optimization, post quantum cryptography, developer experience, and performance
• Produce a consistent cadence of technical thought leadership - deep-dive blogs, benchmark reports, conference talks, and demos - timed to global and industry events so Akamai shows up with proof when the market is paying attention
• Partner with product marketing to ground positioning, messaging, and competitive content in technical reality

Requirements

• 6 years of relevant experience in technical marketing, solutions or sales engineering, or network engineering in CDN, content delivery, networking, edge or adjacent infrastructure
• A Bachelor's degree in a technical field or its equivalent
• Genuinely hands-on with the delivery stack: HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, QUIC, TLS, DNS, caching, routing and peering fundamentals, and the tooling to measure them, with working scripting or automation skills
• Designed and run performance benchmarks with a methodology you can defend publicly, and know the difference between a result and a cherry-pick
• Built demos and reference architectures that technical audiences used and trusted
• Comfortable engaging network engineers or peering, route optimization, and post-quantum cryptography, and equally comfortable presenting the implications to a non-technical audience
• Excellent technical writing and public speaking skills, with published work or talks you are proud to share

Qualifications

• Comfortable with complex technical concepts and able to explain them clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience with network optimization, carrier and telco peering, route optimization, and post-quantum cryptography
• Ability to communicate technical ideas effectively through written and verbal means
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and as part of a team

Skills

• Technical writing and public speaking skills
• Experience with network optimization, carrier and telco peering, route optimization, and post-quantum cryptography
• Ability to design and run performance benchmarks
• Experience with Akamai's delivery and performance products

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 including a focus on mental and financial wellness

Pay

• The base salary for this position ranges from $119,600 - $215,400/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location

Schedule

• Full-time