Principal Software Development Engineer in Test Lead

About the project

Akamai's Compute Team focuses on simplifying, scaling, and making cloud computing globally accessible and affordable while fostering innovation. The Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) II handles automated testing, framework maintenance, and quality assurance. Responsibilities include maintaining software platforms and managing hypervisor upgrades within the growing infrastructure.

Partner with the best

This position delivers architectural guidance and technical expertise for performance engineering within Akamai Compute, emphasizing Meerkat's automation framework. Responsibilities include resolving performance bottlenecks, designing distributed benchmarking systems, and establishing hardware validation standards for advanced cloud infrastructure.

This is how we organize our work

This is how we work

• you have influence on the technological solutions applied
• you focus on product development
• you focus on code maintenance

Team members

• backend developer
• technical leader
• devOps
• system analyst

Your responsibilities

• Designing and architecting scalable, distributed testing frameworks and automated benchmarking tools for advanced cloud computing platforms.
• Guiding and mentoring a team of engineers while defining technical vision, roadmap, and best practices for performance engineering and automated validation.
• Designing, developing, and maintaining automated testing frameworks to ensure software quality and reliability across various platforms.
• Defining and enforcing performance criteria, SLAs, and latency targets across global compute fleet deployments to ensure operational efficiency.
• Designing, scaling, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines to support continuous integration, automated regression, and performance testing across hardware and software infrastructure.
• Collaborating with developers, SRE, datacenter operations, and the Meerkat team to enhance performance, refine testing, resolve bottlenecks, and achieve goals.

Our requirements

• Demonstrate explicit knowledge and understanding of high level hardware and software performance objectives.
• Leverage data analysis techniques to process complex performance telemetry, build predictive capacity models, and publish actionable technical insights.
• Analyze performance data within data science and transform it into actionable documents for effective use by the Compute team.
• Demonstrate expertise in Python and experience with Go, Linux/Bash scripting for backend automation, system tools, and test suites.
• Implement CI/CD and DevOps integration, utilizing Jenkins for pipeline scaling and advanced Git workflows expertise.
• Demonstrate extensive practical expertise with Linux-based operating systems. Experience using AI to accelerate development tasks.

What we offer

We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work.

This is how we work on a project

• code review
• Continuous Integration
• DevOps

Benefits

• sharing the costs of sports activities
• private medical care
• life insurance
• remote work opportunities
• flexible working time
• dental care
• corporate gym
• retirement pension plan
• corporate library
• no dress code
• coffee / tea
• parking space for employees
• leisure zone
• extra social benefits
• holiday funds
• employee referral program
• extra leave

Recruitment stages

• HR Interview
• Manager Interview
• Technical Interview
• Panel Interview I
• Panel Interview II

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.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.

We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

Akamai Technologies

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group's Compute division, formerly Linode, and now Akamai's Connected Cloud (ACC), consists of collaborative, inclusive, and creative teams.

We develop applications and services to empower our customers.

Our mission is to accelerate innovation by making cloud computing simple, scalable, affordable, and accessible to all.

We design, develop, test and maintain products that run on our IaaS platform.