Solutions Engineer II

Summary

Akamai Technologies provides a distributed cloud and edge platform that helps organizations improve digital performance, security, content delivery, and AI application capabilities. The Solutions Engineer II will advise enterprise customers and partner with sales teams to understand business needs, architect secure and scalable solutions, demonstrate value, and guide solution adoption through discovery, workshops, and proofs of concept.

Responsibilities

• Leading technical discovery to understand customer initiatives, business challenges, architectures, and desired outcomes
• Partnering with sales teams to develop technical strategies that create opportunities, strengthen relationships, and drive account growth
• Translating business and technical requirements into secure, scalable, high-performance architectures using capabilities across the Akamai platform
• Communicating complex technical concepts clearly to engineers, architects, business leaders, and executive stakeholders
• Leading demonstrations, workshops, solution validations, and Proofs of Concept that help customers evaluate and adopt Akamai solutions
• Using modern tools, APIs, automation, AI-assisted technologies, and rapid prototyping to make ideas tangible and demonstrate value
• Exploring emerging technologies, including AI, agents, APIs, and cloud-native architectures, to solve customer challenges and create measurable value
• Collaborating across Sales, Services, Product Management, and Engineering while contributing reusable ideas, demonstrations, and technical approaches

Skills

• Have 5yrs experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, Information Technology, or another related technical field
• Bring professional experience in customer-facing technology, solutions architecture, engineering, technical consulting, implementation, pre-sales, or a related discipline
• Possess solid Internet and cloud fundamentals, including DNS, HTTP(S), APIs, networking, and modern application architectures
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly through excellent written, verbal, presentation, and customer-facing skills
• Connect technical solutions to customer priorities, business outcomes, and value through curiosity, discovery, and commercial awareness
• Learn unfamiliar technologies quickly, experiment with new approaches, and operate assuredly when the solution is not yet obvious
• Understand modern AI concepts; experience may include LLMs, agents, MCP, RAG, AI gateways, prompt engineering, or AI-assisted development
• Enjoy getting hands-on with APIs, automation, cloud platforms, observability, infrastructure-as-code, or prototyping to assemble and validate solutions. Similar

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Have 5yrs experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, Information Technology, or another related technical field
• Bring professional experience in customer-facing technology, solutions architecture, engineering, technical consulting, implementation, pre-sales, or a related discipline
• Possess solid Internet and cloud fundamentals, including DNS, HTTP(S), APIs, networking, and modern application architectures
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly through excellent written, verbal, presentation, and customer-facing skills
• Connect technical solutions to customer priorities, business outcomes, and value through curiosity, discovery, and commercial awareness
• Learn unfamiliar technologies quickly, experiment with new approaches, and operate assuredly when the solution is not yet obvious
• Understand modern AI concepts; experience may include LLMs, agents, MCP, RAG, AI gateways, prompt engineering, or AI-assisted development
• Enjoy getting hands-on with APIs, automation, cloud platforms, observability, infrastructure-as-code, or prototyping to assemble and validate solutions. Similar

Benefits

• The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
• 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; Eligibility requirements apply.
• Akamai's FlexBase program supports employees to work at home, in an office, or a combination of both.