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Manager Software Development Engineer in Test

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Hiring Remotely in United Kingdom
Senior level
In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in United Kingdom
Senior level
Lead and grow an SDET team building reliable, scalable cloud storage solutions. Provide technical leadership, design and review architectures, plan sprints, implement deterministic functional and non-functional test suites in CI/CD/CT pipelines, collaborate on product specs, hire and mentor engineers, and continuously improve processes and systems.
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Do you want to build the next generation of Linode cloud storage?

Do you love leading and motivating successful teams?

Join the Linode Storage Engineering Team.

Our Storage Team is responsible for developing and maintaining Akamai's cloud storage platform for Linode. Our enterprise grade solution is an essential element to Akamai's Connected Cloud platform. We provide a scalable and secure storage solution for Linode's customers to build their businesses.

Partner with the best

As an Engineering Manager you will lead a team building highly usable, reliable and scalable storage solutions. Our platform empowers enterprises to create modern solutions to the world's problems.

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

  • Managing and developing the team through hiring, training, coaching and mentoring
  • Providing technical expertise and leadership for your team
  • Participating in technical design, product specifications reviews, projects and backlog planning
  • Planning your team's sprints, collaborating with Team Leads and your management peers
  • Improving internal processes and systems on a consistent basis

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

  • Have relevant experience managing and maintaining high performing engineering teams
  • Have extensive experience in an SDET role, testing software in a distributed, micro-services environment with a depth of experience using Python and Golang
  • Build reliable, deterministic, and effective functional and non-functional test suites within a CI/CD/CT environment, showcasing proven expertise and experience.
  • Have good knowledge of object storage and block storage technologies within cloud environments
  • Have experience designing abstract software architectures from ideas through implementation and creatively apply domain experience to solve technical challenges

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.

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