Are you passionate about Hardware & Platform Validation at Scale?
Are you passionate about Automation Developing?
Join our Compute Team!
Akamai's Compute Team simplifies and scales cloud computing to ensure global accessibility and affordability. This role supports the Meerkat team, which specializes in DevOps pipelines, hardware profiling, and server validation. The Principal Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) oversees automated server qualification, Jenkins pipeline creation, and platform validation for distributed cloud systems.
Partner with the best
Collaborate with engineers to create tests and manage test suites and automation frameworks for Akamai's core infrastructure performance. Design, develop, and execute scalable testing frameworks to deliver high-quality software and optimize performance. Work cross-functionally to improve test strategies, automation tools, and processes. Promote software quality enhancement through innovative testing solutions, ensuring reliability and efficiency throughout development lifecycles.
As a Principal SDET Lead on the Meerkat team, your responsibilities will include:
- Designing automated hardware benchmarking and complete server stack validation frameworks seamlessly integrated into CI/CD workflows.
- Guiding and mentoring engineers while shaping the technical roadmap for hardware profiling and platform qualification.
- Establishing hardware qualification standards, stress profiles, and acceptance criteria for newly introduced server equipment ensures optimal performance and reliability.
- Designing scalable automated test frameworks to ensure system reliability, hardware compatibility, and seamless platform integration.
- Designing, building, and optimizing enterprise Jenkins pipelines to enable continuous server stack validation and automated regression testing globally.
- Collaborating with DevOps, kernel, SRE, and datacenter teams to evaluate server architectures and address hardware deployment challenges effectively.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Exhibit comprehensive knowledge of computer architecture, server hardware components, Linux operating system stacks, and cloud infrastructure validation.
- Analyze platform telemetry and hardware diagnostics to detect equipment flaws and deliver practical technical recommendations effectively.
- Have a solid understanding of Linux and OS fundamentals, including networking protocols
- Drive advanced DevOps practices and CI/CD integration, mastering Jenkins pipeline development alongside Python, Go, and Linux/Bash scripting.
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.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
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.
Skills Required
- Comprehensive knowledge of computer architecture and server hardware components
- Experience with Linux operating system stacks and fundamentals
- Understanding of networking protocols
- Experience validating cloud infrastructure and distributed systems
- Ability to analyze platform telemetry and hardware diagnostics
- Advanced DevOps and CI/CD practices
- Jenkins pipeline development
- Python programming
- Go programming
- Linux and Bash scripting
- Ability to guide and mentor engineers
Akamai Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Akamai Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Akamai Technologies.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO in the U.S., wellness days, paid volunteering time, and the FlexBase model contribute to broad time‑off flexibility. These practices are described as supporting strong work‑life balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leaves, paid family care leave, subsidized backup childcare, and inclusive family‑building benefits via Carrot form a comprehensive family support suite. Coverage spans fertility support through caregiving resources.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a substantial company match and immediate vesting, plus Roth and Mega Backdoor Roth options, underpin long‑term savings. These features provide reliable long‑term savings opportunities.
Akamai Technologies Insights
What We Do
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every moment, billions of people, all over the world, are using the internet to shop, play games, look after finances, learn remotely, share videos, connect across the world, and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission, and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges, and turning the impossible into the possible. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Do you want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!
Why Work With Us
Our people are devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence, and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse, and we love to collaborate across the world.
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