[Hiring] Senior Software Development Engineer in Test @Akamai

Role Description

Would revolutionizing the cloud computing space excite you? Are you passionate about delivering the core platform that enables everything-as-a-service for your fellow developers? Join our Compute Team!

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group's Compute division, formerly Linode, and now Akamai Cloud, consists of collaborative, inclusive, and creative teams. We develop applications and services to empower our customers. Our mission is to accelerate innovation by making cloud computing simple, scalable, affordable, and accessible to all. We design, develop, test and maintain products that run on our IaaS platform.

You will be part of a team responsible for designing and developing tests. You will contribute to testing frameworks and managing test execution pipelines for our portfolio of products. They are designed to manage IP Addresses across the Akamai Cloud. The team focuses on test automation and automated workflows with emphasis on integrating testing into CI/CD release pipelines.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, you will be responsible for:

• Contributing towards building the roadmap for enterprise IP addressing and connectivity features.
• Validating and testing cloud-native technologies and architectures, including monitoring, troubleshooting and improving test execution pipelines.
• Participating in the definition and adoption of best practices, knowledge sharing.
• Collaborating in an Agile environment to ensure high product quality.
• Working in an environment that fosters innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication.

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in developing test automation.
• Experience in widely accepted frameworks with focus on backend and REST API testing (Java, Python, junit, spock, cucumber, pytest, etc.).
• Open and able to work with Python (and pytest) as the primary language, with prior experience welcomed but not required.
• Demonstrated analytical thinking, alongside solid debugging and troubleshooting skills for resolving test-related issues in complex platforms.
• Experience leveraging CI/CD tools, specifically Jenkins and GitHub Actions, to support good software development practices.
• Good understanding of networking fundamentals, as well as practical knowledge of virtualization, Linux-based operating systems and cloud solutions.
• Positive view on using AI as means to help supplement SDLC to ensure higher quality software shipped on schedule.

Benefits

• We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work.
• 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.
• We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

Company Description

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.

• 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.