Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Distributed Networking, Content Delivery

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Massachusetts.

📋 Description

• Hands-on implementation of Akamai's delivery and performance products, creating and sustaining live configurations and demo environments that demonstrate genuine capabilities on actual traffic rather than mere presentations.

• Designing and executing reproducible benchmarking with a documented, defensible methodology, validated against independent third-party measurements, to provide evidence supporting Akamai's performance advantages.

• Crafting reference architectures and demonstrations that clearly convey Akamai's technical differentiation for customers, field teams, and events.

• Taking ownership of the technical explanation of what sets Akamai's distributed network and content delivery platform apart, ensuring that the information remains current as the platform evolves.

• Collaborating directly with engineering to deepen knowledge of network optimization, carrier and telco peering, route optimization, post-quantum cryptography, developer experience, and performance.

• Producing a consistent stream of technical thought leadership, including in-depth blogs, benchmark reports, conference presentations, and demos, strategically timed to align with global and industry events to ensure Akamai is represented with proof during key market moments.

• Partnering with product marketing to anchor positioning, messaging, and competitive content in technical reality.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 6 years of relevant experience in technical marketing, solutions or sales engineering, or network engineering within CDN, content delivery, networking, edge, or related infrastructure, along with a Bachelor's degree in a technical field or its equivalent.

• Demonstrated hands-on experience with the delivery stack: HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, QUIC, TLS, DNS, caching, routing and peering fundamentals, and the tools necessary to measure these, as well as proficiency in scripting or automation.

• Experience in designing and executing performance benchmarks with a methodology that can be publicly defended.

• Developed demos and reference architectures that have been utilized and trusted by technical audiences.

• Comfortable interacting with network engineers concerning peering, route optimization, and post-quantum cryptography, while also being able to present these implications to a non-technical audience.

• Exceptional technical writing and public speaking abilities, with published works or presentations that you are proud to share.

🏝️ Benefits

• Healthcare

• 401K savings plan

• Company holidays

• Vacation (in the form of PTO)

• Sick time

• Family-friendly benefits, including parental leave

• Employee assistance program focused on mental and financial wellness