Senior SDET: Performance & CI/CD Automation for Cloud

Akamai; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai's Compute team, part of the Meerkat group, is seeking a Senior II Software Development Engineer in Test to advance performance architecture, hardware benchmarking, and automated quality systems for distributed cloud environments.

You will build scalable testing frameworks, automate regression, load and performance tests, and integrate performance gates into Jenkins-driven CI/CD pipelines, collaborating with software engineers, SREs, and data center teams.

Qualifications

• Experience with Python and Go, Linux/Bash scripting for backend automation and test suites.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable performance testing frameworks and automated benchmarking suites.
• Design and execute automated regression, load, and stress tests.
• Establish performance baselines, validation standards, and thresholds for compute fleets.
• Monitor SLAs and latency targets to identify bottlenecks and ensure reliability.
• Build and optimize CI/CD Pipelines with Jenkins to automate testing and gating.
• Collaborate with developers, SREs, and datacenter teams to improve tests and quality.

Skills

Python

Go

Linux shell scripting

CI/CD automation

Tools

Jenkins

Job description

Akamai's Compute team, part of the Meerkat group, is seeking a Senior II Software Development Engineer in Test to advance performance architecture, hardware benchmarking, and automated quality systems for distributed cloud environments.

You will build scalable testing frameworks, automate regression, load and performance tests, and integrate performance gates into Jenkins-driven CI/CD pipelines, collaborating with software engineers, SREs, and data center teams.