7 hours ago
Remote, CzechiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and optimize scalable performance-testing frameworks and automated benchmarking suites for distributed cloud computing platforms.
- Design, implement, and execute automated regression, load, stress, and performance tests for software, infrastructure, and newly onboarded server hardware.
- Establish performance baselines, hardware-validation standards, acceptance criteria, and performance thresholds for worldwide compute-fleet implementations.
- Monitor and validate SLAs, latency targets, system throughput, and infrastructure performance to identify bottlenecks and support platform reliability.
- Build, scale, and optimize Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, regression execution, and performance gating.
- Collaborate with software developers, SREs, and datacenter teams to improve testing architectures, resolve performance issues, and enhance system quality.
- Analyze complex performance telemetry, build predictive capacity models, and publish actionable technical insights.
Requirements
- Demonstrated knowledge of high-level hardware and software performance objectives.
- Expertise with Python and experience with Go, Linux/Bash scripting, backend automation, system tools, and test suites.
- Experience with CI/CD and DevOps integration, Jenkins pipeline scaling, and advanced Git workflows.
- Extensive practical expertise with Linux-based operating systems.
- Ability to use data analysis techniques to process performance telemetry and convert data-science results into practical recommendations.
- Experience using AI to accelerate development tasks.
Benefits
- Akamai provides benefits supporting employees’ health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work.
- FlexBase supports working from home, in an office, or through a combination of both, depending on job needs.
About Akamai
Akamai builds content delivery, cloud security, and edge compute services for enterprises that run consumer and business web, API, and video workloads. The public company (NASDAQ: AKAM), founded in 1998 and headquartered in Cambridge, MA, operates a global CDN and security platform and sells via subscriptions and usage-based services. It expanded into cloud infrastructure by acquiring Linode in 2022, offering IaaS and managed Kubernetes.