Do you want to shape automated quality engineering for next-generation edge and cloud delivery?
Are you passionate about building robust test automation?
Join our Compute division's Platform Engineering Team!
Akamai's CTG Team builds services empowering customers to deploy application-level features at the edge, such as traffic routing. As a Software Development Engineer in Test II, responsibilities involve thorough testing to validate releases and designing automation frameworks ensuring APIs, edge functionality, and user interfaces are scalable, resilient, and perform efficiently across diverse scenarios.
Partner with the best
This role involves designing, developing and maintaining automated test suites for backend services, REST APIs, edge components and web UIs. You will collaborate cross-functionally with developers, SRE and support teams to find quality bottlenecks early, investigate failures and ship reliable releases.
As a Software Development Engineer in Test II, you will be responsible for:
- Developing and maintaining automated API, integration and end-to-end tests using Java, Groovy or Kotlin.
- Designing and implementing UI test automation with Playwright or Cypress.
- Validating HTTP-based services and edge behavior.
- Integrating test suites into CI/CD pipelines so that regression runs happen automatically and reliably.
- Investigating test failures, identifying root causes and working with developers to resolve issues quickly.
- Maintaining test environments, test data and reusable test tooling.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Possess engineering expertise or equivalent education in computing or related field, alongside applicable practical experience in software development.
- Demonstrate programming expertise in any language. Familiarity with Java, Groovy, Kotlin, and test frameworks like Spock, JUnit, or TestNG.
- Demonstrate expertise in networking fundamentals, including comprehensive understanding of HTTP, TCP/IP, and DNS protocols.
- Demonstrate practical experience with UI test automation and familiarity with tools such as Playwright or Cypress.
- Work in Linux environments, utilizing shell scripting and command-line troubleshooting expertise to address technical challenges effectively.
- Demonstrate expertise with Git and continuous integration and delivery practices effectively.
- Demonstrate exceptional ability to communicate effectively in English through both written and verbal expression.
- Demonstrate expertise with Jenkins infrastructure, pipelines, Job DSL, agents, plugins, API testing tools, reporting tools, or AI-driven debugging.
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
- Engineering expertise or equivalent education in computing or a related field
- Practical experience in software development
- Programming expertise in any language
- Familiarity with Java, Groovy, Kotlin, Spock, JUnit, or TestNG
- Expertise in HTTP, TCP/IP, and DNS networking fundamentals
- Practical experience with UI test automation using tools such as Playwright or Cypress
- Linux environment experience, shell scripting, and command-line troubleshooting
- Expertise with Git and continuous integration and delivery practices
- Effective written and verbal English communication
- Expertise with Jenkins infrastructure, pipelines, Job DSL, agents, plugins, API testing tools, reporting tools, or AI-driven debugging
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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