Principal Software Development Engineer in Test
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 15, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 15, 2026. Akamai scores A on the Alion truth index.
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 Akamai Cloud using Kubernetes
This role will leverage your Kubernetes and Cloud Native technologies expertise. You will help build the next-generation platform for new products and services. The Golden Path cloud-native platform will be used to bring new products and services to market faster. This involves simplifying their performance, reliability, security, and operational needs.
As a Principal Software Development Engineer in Test, you will be responsible for:
- Driving the overarching test strategy, framework architecture, and platform quality initiatives across teams.
- Partnering with business leaders and architects to define long-term quality and testing roadmaps.
- Mentoring senior engineers while setting organizational standards for automated continuous deployment testing.
- Championing innovation in cloud-native testing methodologies to accelerate rapid development cycles safely.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Hold relevant experience in test automation and software platform engineering.
- Demonstrate deep mastery of continuous integration pipelines, infrastructure tools, and platform networking.
- Exhibit expert knowledge of Kubernetes, container orchestration, cloud-native services, Python, Go, and Linux environments.
- Have strong knowledge of networking fundamentals, and security principles.
- Demonstrate thought leadership in designing scalable automation frameworks for complex cloud platform ecosystems.
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
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