Principal SDET: Hardware Validation & CI/CD Lead

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Kraków; On-site; PLN 220,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal SDET Lead on the Meerkat team to oversee automated server qualification, CI/CD pipelines, and platform validation for distributed cloud systems.

You will design scalable testing frameworks and mentor engineers while shaping the hardware profiling roadmap. Collaborate with DevOps, kernel, SRE, and data center teams to evaluate server architectures and drive Jenkins-based automation across global deployments, ensuring reliability and performance of

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of computer architecture, server hardware components, Linux OS, and cloud infrastructure validation.
• Experience analyzing platform telemetry and hardware diagnostics to detect equipment flaws and provide recommendations.
• Solid understanding of Linux networking protocols and OS fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Design automated hardware benchmarking and server stack validation frameworks integrated into CI/CD workflows.
• Guide and mentor engineers while shaping the technical roadmap for hardware profiling and platform qualification.
• Establish hardware qualification standards, stress profiles, and acceptance criteria for new server equipment.
• Design scalable automated test frameworks to ensure system reliability and hardware compatibility.
• Build and optimize enterprise Jenkins pipelines for continuous server stack validation and automated regression testing.
• Collaborate with DevOps, kernel, SRE, and datacenter teams to evaluate server architectures and address hardware deployment challenges.

Skills

CI/CD practices

Mentoring engineers

Technical roadmap planning

Distributed cloud testing

Tools

Jenkins

Linux

Python

Go

Bash scripting

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal SDET Lead on the Meerkat team to oversee automated server qualification, CI/CD pipelines, and platform validation for distributed cloud systems.

You will design scalable testing frameworks and mentor engineers while shaping the hardware profiling roadmap. Collaborate with DevOps, kernel, SRE, and data center teams to evaluate server architectures and drive Jenkins-based automation across global deployments, ensuring reliability and performance of