Principal SDET Lead: Performance Automation at Scale (Remote)

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal SDET Lead on the Meerkat team to guide automated testing, performance validation, and scalable benchmarking for our cloud infrastructure.

You will mentor engineers, define the technical vision, and develop frameworks that ensure high quality across diverse platforms, while driving CI/CD improvements and performance targets for a global compute fleet.

Qualifications

• Experience building and maintaining automated test frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of performance benchmarking and telemetry analysis.
• Proficiency in Python with exposure to Go and shell scripting.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect scalable, distributed testing frameworks for cloud platforms.
• Mentor engineers; define technical vision, roadmap, and best practices.
• Develop and maintain automated testing frameworks for quality and reliability across platforms.
• Define performance criteria, SLAs, and latency targets for global deployments.
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines to support automated regression and performance testing.
• Collaborate with developers, SRE, and datacenter operations to improve performance and resolve bottlenecks.

Skills

Python

Go

Linux/Bash scripting

CI/CD

Git workflows

Performance engineering

Distributed testing

Tools

Jenkins

Git

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal SDET Lead on the Meerkat team to guide automated testing, performance validation, and scalable benchmarking for our cloud infrastructure.

You will mentor engineers, define the technical vision, and develop frameworks that ensure high quality across diverse platforms, while driving CI/CD improvements and performance targets for a global compute fleet.