15 hours ago
Base Salary
$169k - $305k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own VM and fleet test strategy, performance quality gates, and hypervisor behavior validation across the IaaS platform.
- Define testing approaches for hypervisor behavior, VM performance, fleet-level quality, and statistical rigor while mentoring SDETs.
- Design reproducible container-based environments that emulate bare-metal VM conditions and validate data integrity.
- Develop automated performance benchmarks with statistical baselines, change-point detection, and regression gates 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 experience.
- Have experience with KVM, QEMU, and libvirt internals, VM exits, and NUMA/cache performance effects.
- Debug across x86 and ARM architectures in bare-metal and emulated environments while isolating root causes.
- Demonstrate strong Linux fundamentals covering scheduling, memory management, I/O subsystems, storage architectures, and block devices.
- Apply statistical thinking to 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’s FlexBase program, allowing work from home, an office, or a combination of both.
- Healthcare, 401(k) savings plan, company holidays, PTO, sick time, parental leave, and an employee assistance program focused on mental and financial wellness.
- Potential annual bonus or incentive compensation, equity awards, and 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.