Are you an SDET who loves solving complex system-level problems?
Would you enjoy working on build and release engineering for products running on ARM architecture?
Join the Akamai Cloud Technology Group
The Akamai Cloud Technology Engineering team owns, develops and manages the solutions used by our engineers globally. These solutions help to run one of the largest distributed systems in the world. We work closely with internal teams and stakeholders to create innovative, powerful, scalable, highly reliable and secure systems at scale.
Partner with the best
As a Senior SDET at Akamai, this role involves building, validating, and releasing software for ARM-based platforms. Collaboration with international cross-functional teams, including stakeholders and developers, ensures the delivery of high-quality software solutions.
As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, you will be responsible for:
- ARM & System Engineering: Work with ARM64/AArch64 and Linux environments, troubleshooting architecture-specific issues across applications, libraries, operating systems, and system resources.
- Developing automation and scripts with Python and Shell while enhancing CI/CD pipelines to optimize build reliability, validation, and release efficiency.
- Investigating complex build and runtime failures using system-level tools, logs, core dumps, and debugging techniques to identify root causes.
- Building infrastructure: Collaborating with compilers, linkers, dependencies, cross-compilation, and build systems like CMake, Make, GCC, and Clang.
- Working in an agile environment and collaborating with geographically distributed engineering teams.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Possess 5+ of relevant experience in SDET, software engineering, build/release engineering, or a related field within computer science.
- Demonstrate hands-on expertise with Linux/Unix systems, ARM64/AArch64 architecture, and system testing using physical HIL setups or target emulators.
- Have strong programming and scripting skills in Python and Shell, with experience developing automation for build, validation, and release processes.
- Demonstrate expertise in CI/CD and source-control tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Git while resolving pipeline issues.
- Exhibit outstanding debugging and root-cause analysis skills using tools such as GDB, strace, perf, valgrind, core dumps, and Linux utilities.
- Have experience validating DevSecOps security controls (SonarQube, Blackduck, SBOM, Cosign) and automated testing of REST APIs, microservices, and SQL databases.
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 in SDET, software engineering, build/release engineering, or a related computer science field
- Hands-on expertise with Linux or Unix systems
- Hands-on expertise with ARM64/AArch64 architecture
- Experience with system testing using physical hardware-in-the-loop setups or target emulators
- Strong Python and Shell programming and scripting skills
- Experience developing automation for build, validation, and release processes
- Expertise with CI/CD and source-control tools including Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Git
- Experience resolving CI/CD pipeline issues
- Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills
- Experience with GDB, strace, perf, valgrind, core dumps, and Linux utilities
- Experience validating DevSecOps security controls, including SonarQube, Black Duck, SBOM, and Cosign
- Experience automating tests for REST APIs, microservices, and SQL databases
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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