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Akamai, a company best known for CDN and edge infrastructure, is standing up a dedicated developer-advocacy function in China aimed at AI inference at the edge, suggesting it is betting that Chinese AI developers are a market worth courting directly despite the geopolitical and regulatory friction around US cloud firms operating there.
Are you a passionate developer who loves to enable and inspire others?
Do you enjoy turning complex technical challenges into clear, compelling narratives and practical code that inspires developer communities?
Join our innovative team
We are dedicated to growing our developer community by creating high-utility, use-case-based content and fostering meaningful technical connections. Our team ensures developers succeed by providing the samples, architectural guidance, and storytelling they need to build global-scale AI applications.
Partner with the best
As a Senior Developer Advocate in China, you will bridge the gap between deep AI infrastructure and practical application development. You will collaborate with engineering and product teams highlighting our technology's capabilities, while advocating the need for global AI developer ecosystem.
As Senior Developer Advocate, you will be responsible for:
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About us
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.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
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