Do you enjoy automation and testing for strategic solutions?
Work with an amazing global team of innovators!
Join the Akamai Storage Engineering Team
Our team is responsible for developing and maintaining Akamai's cloud storage platform. Our enterprise grade solution is an essential element to Akamai's Connected Cloud platform. We provide a scalable and secure storage solution for our customers to build their businesses. We are a diverse group of engineers located in Santa Clara, Cambridge, Philadelphia and Bangalore.
Partner with the best
Having access to Akamai's broad networking experience, global footprint, and high-profile clientele enable us to create innovative product with global impact. We deliver massive amounts of Data at scale and is unmatched by any other in the industry. You will be responsible for all the QA related activities, developing & executing component level test automation.
As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, you will be responsible for:
- Participating in functional and product design reviews, and incorporating feedback into test plans and test cases
- Developing and implementing automated tests for functionality, load, and performance
- Creating and execute tests on new features and capabilities
- Collaborating with a cross-functional team of developers, Systems QA, release engineers, architects and program managers
- Improving our testing and automation infrastructures, define test plans and effective automation
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
- Have experience with storage technologies , Cloud computing, Kubernetes/dockers and networking concepts such as HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP
- Have experience working in Unix/Linux and developing Automation framework using python (bonus points for experience in SQL/Couchdb)
- Be highly responsible, self-managed, self-motivated, able to work with minimal supervision and possess excellent communication skills
- Have passion to understand, learn, and dissect new technologies quickly and excellent debugging/troubleshooting skills
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
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
- Experience with storage technologies
- Experience with Cloud computing
- Experience with Kubernetes/Docker
- Knowledge of networking concepts such as HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP
- Experience working in Unix/Linux
- Developing automation frameworks using Python
- Experience with SQL/CouchDB
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work with minimal supervision
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills and willingness to learn new technologies quickly
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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