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's Connected Cloud (ACC), 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.
Shape the future of Akamai Cloud using Kubernetes
This role will leverage your Kubernetes and Cloud Native technologies expertise. You will help build the next-generation platform for new products and services. The Golden Path cloud-native platform will be used to bring new products and services to market faster. This involves simplifying their performance, reliability, security, and operational needs.
As a Senior II Software Development Engineer in Test, you will be responsible for:
- Leading test framework architecture and building continuous execution pipelines for cloud platform features.
- Helping shape the automated quality engineering roadmap with developers and product stakeholders.
- Establishing test automation standards, sharing testing domain knowledge, and mentoring junior engineers.
- Partnering with engineering leadership to improve continuous delivery stability and release confidence.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Hold relevant experience in test automation and cloud platform engineering.
- Demonstrate strong expertise building test frameworks using Python, Pytest, Go, or Bash.
- Possess deep experience testing high availability, fault tolerant Kubernetes services, containers, and cloud-native technologies.
- Apply advanced knowledge of networking protocols, Linux systems, and continuous delivery tools.
- Possess knowledge using Linux-based operating systems and an understanding of basic security principles.
- Have experience leveraging CI/CD tools to achieve good software development practices.
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.
