8 hours ago
Remote, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own test strategy for hypervisor behavior, VM performance, and fleet-level quality gates.
- Mentor SDETs in statistical rigor and systems-level testing.
- Design reproducible container-based test environments that emulate bare-metal VM conditions and validate data integrity.
- Develop automated performance benchmarks with statistical baselines, change-point detection, and regression gating for CI/CD pipelines.
- Collaborate with product and SRE teams to define SLO measurement and validate deployment safety and rollback strategies.
- Write test harnesses and performance analysis pipelines in Go, Python, and Perl.
Requirements
- Have 12 years of testing experience, including performance testing, hypervisor platforms, and systems engineering, or equivalent.
- Have experience with KVM, QEMU, libvirt internals, VM-exits, and NUMA/cache performance effects.
- Debug across x86 and ARM architectures in bare-metal and emulated environments and isolate failure root causes.
- Demonstrate strong Linux fundamentals covering scheduling, memory management, I/O subsystems, storage architectures, and block devices.
- Demonstrate statistical thinking in experimental design, baseline analysis, variance control, and stakeholder communication.
- Be proficient with Linux perf, VTune, eBPF, Bash, Jenkins, and SaltStack.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangement through Akamai FlexBase, including working from home, in an office, or a combination of both.
- Benefits include healthcare, RRSP, company holidays, PTO, sick time, family-friendly benefits, employee assistance, and mental and financial wellness support; eligibility requirements apply.
- The compensation package may include annual bonus or incentives, equity awards, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
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.