Are you passionate about Performance Engineering & Automation at Scale?
Are you passionate about Automation Developing?
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.
As a Senior II SDET on the Meerkat team, your responsibilities will include:
- 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.
Do what you love
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.
- 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.
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
- Knowledge of high-level hardware and software performance objectives
- Data analysis experience, including processing performance telemetry and developing predictive capacity models
- Expertise in Python
- Experience with Go
- Linux and Bash scripting experience for backend automation, system tools, and test suites
- CI/CD and DevOps integration experience using Jenkins
- Advanced Git workflow expertise
- Extensive practical expertise with Linux-based operating systems
- Experience using AI to accelerate development tasks
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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