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The Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) II handles automated testing, framework maintenance, and quality assurance. Responsibilities include maintaining software platforms and managing hypervisor upgrades within the growing infrastructure.\nPartner with the best\nThis position delivers architectural guidance and technical expertise for performance engineering within Akamai Compute, emphasizing Meerkat's automation framework. Responsibilities include resolving performance bottlenecks, designing distributed benchmarking systems, and establishing hardware validation standards for advanced cloud infrastructure.\nAs a Principal SDET Lead on the Meerkat team, your responsibilities will include:\nDesigning and architecting scalable, distributed testing frameworks and automated benchmarking tools for advanced cloud computing platforms.\nGuiding and mentoring a team of engineers while defining technical vision, roadmap, and best practices for performance engineering and automated validation.\nDesigning, developing, and maintaining automated testing frameworks to ensure software quality and reliability across various platforms.\nDefining and enforcing performance criteria, SLAs, and latency targets across global compute fleet deployments to ensure operational efficiency.\nDesigning, scaling, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines to support continuous integration, automated regression, and performance testing across hardware and software infrastructure.\nCollaborating with developers, SRE, datacenter operations, and the Meerkat team to enhance performance, refine testing, resolve bottlenecks, and achieve goals.\nDo what you love\nTo be successful in this role you will:\nDemonstrate explicit knowledge and understanding of high level hardware and software performance objectives.\nLeverage data analysis techniques to process complex performance telemetry, build predictive capacity models, and publish actionable technical insights.\nAnalyze performance data within data science and transform it into actionable documents for effective use by the Compute team.\nDemonstrate expertise in Python and experience with Go, Linux/Bash scripting for backend automation, system tools, and test suites.\nImplement CI/CD and DevOps integration, utilizing Jenkins for pipeline scaling and advanced Git workflows expertise.\nDemonstrate extensive practical expertise with Linux-based operating systems. 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