10 hours ago
Remote, CzechiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and architect scalable distributed testing frameworks and automated benchmarking tools for cloud computing platforms.
- Define the technical vision, roadmap, best practices, performance criteria, SLAs, and latency targets for performance engineering and automated validation.
- Guide and mentor engineers while maintaining automated testing frameworks across hardware and software platforms.
- Design, scale, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration, regression testing, and performance testing.
- Analyze performance telemetry, develop predictive capacity models, identify bottlenecks, and communicate actionable technical insights.
- Collaborate with developers, SRE, datacenter operations, and the Meerkat team to improve infrastructure performance and testing outcomes.
Requirements
- Demonstrated knowledge of high-level hardware and software performance objectives.
- Extensive practical expertise with Linux-based operating systems.
- Expertise in Python and experience with Go, Linux/Bash scripting, backend automation, system tools, and test suites.
- Experience with Jenkins for pipeline scaling and advanced Git workflows.
- Ability to use data analysis techniques to process complex performance telemetry and build predictive capacity models.
- Experience using AI to accelerate development tasks.
Benefits
- Akamai provides benefits supporting employees’ health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work.
- Flexible work arrangements through FlexBase, including working from home, in an office, or a combination of both.
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.