He was a founding employee and served as vice president for Research and Development for Akamai Technologies.
In 1994, he joined the Computer Science department at Carnegie Mellon University, rising to the rank of full professor with tenure.
In 1998, Maggs took three semesters off of teaching to become a founding employee of the then-startup Akamai Technologies (Nasdaq: AKAM).
[3] From 1998 to 1999, Maggs was on the faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Visiting Associate Professor.
In 2007, Maggs joined the faculty of Duke University, where he is currently the Pelham Wilder Professor of Computer Science.