Principal Kernel Engineer

• Are you excited by the prospect of working with innovative security products?
• Do you enjoy creating innovative and strategic solutions to solve complex problems?

Join Our Team

We build the enforcement agent behind Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, running on millions of workloads across Linux, Windows, and other platforms. It monitors network connections and enforces security policies directly from the kernel in diverse customer environments.

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Join our kernel team, in charge of the network segmentation: building real-time kernel-level enforcement and telemetry for next-generation security products, as well as a new AI Detection and Response (AI-DR) initiative. You’ll develop production-scale software across Linux, Windows, and other platforms, solving complex security challenges. As part of the small senior leaders of the team, you’ll have a direct impact on the product and its technical direction.