Principal Software Development Engineer in Test Lead

To be successful in this role you will:

• 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.

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Are you passionate about Performance Engineering & Automation at Scale?

Join our Compute Team!

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.

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.

As a Principal SDET Lead on the Meerkat team, your responsibilities will include:

• 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.

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