Principal SDET: Hardware Validation & CI/CD Remote

Akamai; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai's Compute Team in Kraków is seeking a Principal SDET Lead to oversee automated server qualification and CI/CD workflows for distributed cloud systems. You will design tests, manage test suites, and drive performance testing across global deployments.

As a senior engineer, you will mentor teammates, define hardware profiling standards, and collaborate with DevOps, kernel, and SRE teams to ensure reliable hardware platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience designing automated hardware benchmarking and server validation.
• Strong knowledge of Linux operating systems and cloud infrastructure validation.
• Proven ability to improve test strategies and automation frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design automated hardware benchmarking and server stack validation within CI/CD.
• Mentor engineers and shape the technical roadmap for hardware profiling.
• Establish hardware qualification standards, stress profiles and acceptance criteria.
• Build scalable automated test frameworks for reliability and integration.
• Develop and optimize Jenkins pipelines for server stack validation and regression testing.
• Collaborate with DevOps, kernel, SRE, and datacenter teams on hardware deployment challenges.

Skills

System validation

DevOps

CI/CD

Python

Go

Linux scripting

Tools

Jenkins

CI/CD tools

Linux

Python

Job description

Akamai's Compute Team in Kraków is seeking a Principal SDET Lead to oversee automated server qualification and CI/CD workflows for distributed cloud systems. You will design tests, manage test suites, and drive performance testing across global deployments.

As a senior engineer, you will mentor teammates, define hardware profiling standards, and collaborate with DevOps, kernel, and SRE teams to ensure reliable hardware platforms.