Senior II Software Development Engineer in Test

Technologies we use

Expected

• Python
• Go
• Bash
• Jenkins
• Linux

Operating system

• Linux

About the project

Join our Compute Team!

Akamai's Compute Team focuses on simplifying, scaling, and delivering accessible, affordable cloud computing worldwide. This position is part of the Meerkat team, which specializes in CI/CD automation, hardware profiling, and performance validation. The Senior II Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) will enhance performance architecture, hardware benchmarking, and automated quality systems for distributed, large-scale environments.

Partner with the best

This position involves performance engineering for Akamai Compute, emphasizing Meerkat's automation stack. Responsibilities include creating automated test suites, benchmarking workloads, and embedding performance gates into CI/CD pipelines. Design and maintain testing frameworks to ensure software quality and integration. Work with diverse teams to determine testing requirements, develop solutions, and enhance testing workflows for improved processes.

This is how we organize our work

This is how we work

• you have influence on the technological solutions applied
• you develop the code "from scratch"
• you focus on product development
• agile

Team members

• backend developer
• technical leader
• devOps
• support
• system analyst

Your responsibilities

• Developing, maintaining, and optimizing scalable performance testing frameworks and automated benchmarking suites for distributed cloud computing platforms.
• Designing, implementing, and executing automated regression, load, stress, and performance tests to validate software, infrastructure, and newly onboarded server hardware.
• Establishing performance baselines, hardware validation standards, acceptance criteria, and performance thresholds for worldwide compute fleet implementations.
• Monitoring and validating SLAs, latency targets, system throughput, and infrastructure performance to identify bottlenecks while ensuring platform reliability.
• Building, scaling, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins to automate testing processes, including execution, regression, and performance gating.
• Collaborating with software developers, SREs, and datacenter teams to improve testing architectures, resolve performance issues, and enhance system quality.

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.
• Convert performance data in data science into actionable insights for practical implementation by the Compute team efficiently and accurately.
• 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.

This is how we work on a project

• Continuous Integration
• DevOps
• test automation

Development opportunities we offer

• assistance in preparation to public speeches
• conferences in Poland
• mentoring
• soft skills training
• support of IT events
• technical knowledge exchange within the company

Benefits

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

Work in a way that works for you

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.

Akamai Technologies

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.