Careers

Join our team driving innovative, collaborative solutions to the world’s toughest challenges

Join our global team making the impossible possible

Build your career at Akamai, where innovation, collaboration and purpose come together. Our teams protect life online, trillions of times a day, making life better for billions of people around the world. Here, you’ll do transformative work that matters, together with the industry’s most talented people.

Our culture by the numbers: 2025

11,200+ employees worldwide

95% of employees can work where they choose: office, home, or both

28 offices with teams in 33+ countries worldwide

Core values driving our global team

Here’s how we build trust, drive innovation, and deliver security every day, everywhere

Customer first

We prioritize customer success with secure, scalable, cloud-first solutions that drive real business outcomes.

Giving back and Inclusion

We empower people and communities through a culture of respect, inclusion, and shared growth across our global tech teams.

Innovation

We challenge ourselves to create new products that deliver real customer value and achieve unparalleled results.

Integrity and trust

We conduct our business with the highest degree of ethics, honesty, and transparency for the absolute good of the whole.

One Akamai

We build success by exchanging skills and ideas for win-win solutions that best serve both our customers and our teams.

Urgency and persistence

Like our Co-Founder Danny Lewin, we always act with courage and a sense of urgency to solve the hardest problems.

Featured roles

Across every role, you’ll be supported to innovate, discover, and achieve great things. We do it together.

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Cloud & Security Engineering

Cloud Infrastructure & Security Engineering

Design and build the systems keeping companies connected, protected, and resilient. You’ll work with experts in security strategy, network architecture, and high-availability systems defining and delivering the highest technical standards worldwide.

Related roles:

  • Software Engineer
  • Network Architect

Customer Engagement

Customer Engagement & Implementation

Lead projects, unite teams, and help deliver with precision at global scale. Here, you’ll guide technical projects from concept to execution, drive collaboration across teams, and shape success for customers across an array of industries.

Related roles:

  • Technical Project Manager
  • Senior Solutions Architect

Software Test Engineering

Software Development Engineering in Test

Build scalable, reliable solutions behind the world’s leading digital experiences. Here, you’ll work on global systems, contribute to back-end dev, and apply testing practices keeping our products trusted, secure, and pacing the industry.

Related roles:

  • Software Development Engineering in Test

Cloud Native Development

Cloud Native Development & Services

Build and evolve the cloud with cutting-edge tools and platforms. Here, you’ll work with scalable architectures, Kubernetes, and advanced cloud technologies that help our team and customers drive innovation worldwide. 

Related roles:

  • Senior Software Engineer

Named a top place to work

  • Excellence in Recruitment 2025
    RippleMatch
  • America’s Greatest Workplaces 2025
    Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group
  • Best Employers for New Grads 2024
    Forbes and Statista
  • Best Workplaces for Women 2025
    Poland Great Places to Work
  • America’s Greatest Workplaces for Gen Z 2025
    Newsweek
  • America’s Most Innovative Companies 2024
    Fortune
  • Workplace Culture 2025
    Mass Technology Leadership Council
  • Europe’s Best Employers 2025
    Financial Times
  • Best Companies to Work For 2024
    U.S. News & World Report

Life at Akamai

We’re a global community of problem-solvers who share a passion for technology and innovation.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Rights
Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.

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Accommodations
Akamai will provide reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities who need an accommodation to fully participate in the application process. If you would like to request an accommodation, please send an email to careers(at)akamai(dot)com or call +1 (617)274-7165 for assistance in applying. Please note, this email address and phone number are only for job seekers with disabilities requesting an accommodation. Please do not use these to check on the status of your job application.