Senior Security Engineer – Inference Cloud

Akamai Technologies

Senior Security Engineer on Akamai's Inference Cloud Team defining security practices for AI workloads. Responsible for runtime security controls, threat modeling, and infrastructure hardening in cloud environments.

Posted 6/9/2026full-timeRemote • 🇵🇱 PolandSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGoPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Designing and implementing runtime security controls that protect inference execution environments against adversarial inputs, model extraction, and unauthorized access
Conducting threat modeling and security assessments of inference serving frameworks, model loading pipelines, and GPU execution environments
Hardening model serving infrastructure including container isolation, runtime sandboxing, and supply chain integrity for model artifacts and dependencies
Developing automated security testing and monitoring for inference workloads to detect anomalous behavior, data exfiltration, and prompt-based attacks
Collaborating with platform and model intelligence teams to establish security standards across the full inference lifecycle from model ingestion to production serving

Requirements

What you’ll need

Have relevant experience in this area
Demonstrate hands-on experience in application or infrastructure security engineering with a focus on runtime protection, threat modeling, or penetration testing
Demonstrate knowledge of AI/ML inference architectures and address security challenges like model poisoning, prompt injection, and data leakage.
Have experience with container security, supply chain hardening, and secure deployment practices in cloud-native environments
Demonstrate proficiency in Python, Go, or C++ with experience building security tooling or automated vulnerability detection
Show familiarity with security frameworks and compliance standards relevant to AI systems (e.g., OWASP ML Top 10, NIST AI RMF, FedRAMP).

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Hard Skills & Tools

runtime security controlsthreat modelingsecurity assessmentscontainer isolationruntime sandboxingautomated security testinganomalous behavior detectionPythonGoC++

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunication