[Hiring] Security Researcher @Akamai

Role Description

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.

As a Security Researcher, you will be responsible for:

• Updating and maintaining defensive telemetry collection mechanisms (including the Akamai Mobile SDK) to improve signal accuracy, runtime protection, and anti-tampering.
• Dissecting patched mobile applications, custom Chromium modifications, browser extensions, and stealth automation frameworks to uncover bypass methods, anti-bot evasion techniques, and scale-enabling tools.
• Analyzing large-scale web and mobile network traffic to identify browser fingerprint anomalies, protocol-level spoofs, and automated fraud vectors.
• Partnering with data science and engineering teams to convert reverse-engineering findings into automated, production-grade bot-mitigation rules.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a security researcher.
• Hands-on experience leveraging AI/LLM tools and AI coding agents to accelerate reverse engineering, automate deobfuscation, and scale code analysis.
• Deep understanding of modern web and client automation frameworks, including the underlying techniques and architectures used to build, customize, and scale them.
• Deep expertise in analyzing, deobfuscating, and reverse engineering heavily obfuscated JavaScript and Java code.
• Proven experience analyzing browser extensions and customized/patched browser builds (e.g., custom Chromium variants designed to mimic human telemetry).
• Hands-on experience with reverse engineering tools and frameworks such as Frida, Jadx, IDA Pro, Ghidra, or browser debugging APIs.
• Ability to analyze and bypass mobile & browser security controls (e.g., canvas/TLS fingerprinting, code obfuscation, SSL pinning, root/jailbreak detection).
• Deep understanding of application-layer protocols (HTTP/S, WebSockets, gRPC) and modern web browser rendering engines.
• Proficiency in Python or Go to automate reverse-engineering workflows and script custom analysis tooling.

Company Description

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.