2 days ago
Base Salary
$169k - $305k/yr
Responsibilities
- Identify testing approaches for proposed engineering changes.
- Develop and maintain automated test frameworks and pipelines for unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
- Create and maintain test plans and test cases covering relevant scenarios and edge cases for compute services.
- Write and maintain scripts for deployments, migrations, and rollbacks.
- Investigate complex issues, identify root causes, and recommend solutions.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers while promoting quality standards.
Requirements
- 12 years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree in computer science or its equivalent.
- Deep expertise in Python, Pytest, and microservices testing best practices.
- Experience with automation tools and frameworks such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and SaltStack.
- Good Linux fundamentals, particularly performance tuning.
- Comfort with Bash, scripting fundamentals, and containerization tools such as Docker.
- Good networking fundamentals, including HTTP, TLS, TCP/IP, and DNS.
- Understanding of modern testing methodologies.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements through Akamai’s FlexBase program, including home, office, or hybrid work.
- Healthcare, 401(k) savings plan, company holidays, PTO, and sick time.
- Family-friendly benefits including parental leave.
- Employee assistance program focused on mental and financial wellness.
- Potential bonus or incentive compensation, equity awards, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan; eligibility requirements apply.
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.