Senior Software Development Engineer in Test
Akamai Technologies
With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Do you want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!
Tech stack
Bash
Kubernetes
Selenium
Job description
Would revolutionizing the cloud computing space excite you?
Are you passionate about delivering the core platform that enables everything-as-a-service for your fellow developers?
Join our Compute Team!
Akamai's Cloud Technology Group's Compute division, formerly Linode, and now Akamai's Connected Cloud (ACC), consists of collaborative, inclusive, and creative teams. We develop applications and services to empower our customers. Our mission is to accelerate innovation by making cloud computing simple, scalable, affordable, and accessible to all. We design, develop, test and maintain products that run on our IaaS platform.
Shape the future of our managed Application Platform
You will design and build tests, frameworks and integration pipelines for our managed Kubernetes Application Platform. It is an enterprise-grade platform focused on simplifying and expediting the deployment and management of new applications on Kubernetes through its integration of essential tools and best practices. You will also build and validate continuous integration, testing, and deployment pipelines for the platform.
As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, you will be responsible for:
- Being a major contributor in developing the tests, supporting frameworks and CI/CT/CD pipelines validating an application platform built on Kubernetes
- Contributing towards building the roadmap for enterprise features expected from a Kubernetes-based Application Platform
- Validating and testing cloud-native technologies and architectures
- Developing best practices, knowledge sharing, and mentoring
- Collaborating with engineering teams in an Agile environment
- Working in an environment that fosters innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have experience building and operating or testing highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable production services using Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies
- Have experience leveraging CI/CD tools to achieve good software development practices
- Be familiar using infrastructure as code tools like Crossplane, Pulumi, Terraform or Ansible
- Have experience with Pytest, Selenium, or other test automation and frameworks and comfortability leveraging Python or Bash for scripting
- Understand networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP) and knowledge of Linux-based operating systems